Carnies and Wildcats: Ulciscor
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One morning, six weeks after his release, he called Seiffert and made a demand. He insisted he wanted ownership of the company again. If Seiffert did not comply, he would go to the police and tell them everything. Seiffert thought about returning the threat by mentioning Dottie’s murder but decided against it.
Seiffert told Allen they needed to meet to discuss the details. Allen wouldn’t agree to come to Seiffert’s office, he was afraid to go back there. He told Seiffert to meet him at Ridley Specialties the following morning.
Later that afternoon, on the way home from work, Allen died in a head-on car crash with another vehicle. A very fat man drove the other car and he died too. Unopened packs of potato chips filled the obese man’s car. One of the police officers investigating the accident looked in the man’s car and said, “He must’ve really loved potato chips.”
CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
Autumn came and delivered colored leaves and high school football. Autumn also brought colorful signs plastered everywhere in the city. Vibrant signs which Valdostans had not seen for almost forty years, signs announcing “Pritchard’s Carnival, Midway Rides and Shows is Returning to Valdosta!”
Lowndes played Valdosta in their cross-town rivalry game, the “Winnersville Classic.” Lowndes High won. The win overjoyed the parents and kids from the county school—a trophy and bragging rights for another year.
The following Sunday, before most people rolled out of their warm beds, the carnival rolled into town. The early risers stood and watched with nostalgic amazement the long convoy of rides, games, sideshows, and motor homes.
Before nightfall, the workers had assembled everything. Seiffert and Shorty walked around the fairgrounds and inspected the carnival.
Seiffert had bittersweet feelings.
Lights.
Smells.
Sounds.
Wonderful memories of great times in the past.
Sad remembrances of his great loss.
He walked to the sideshow area. He would once again perform his hypnotism act before crowds of people. It would be fun to make the people bark like dogs, take off their clothes, crow like chickens and act like fools. He smiled.
He stopped at the freak show area, “Oddities” and ducked into the enormous tent. Dwain and Patrick were assembling the new act—”The Wild Man of the Okefenokee”.
The wild man was already in his cage, dirty and smelly with two, claw-like fingers on each hand and a matted beard which hung below his waist. His wild, bloodshot eyes glared at Seiffert.
A misty-eyed Seiffert smiled and said, “You finally got your wish—to run away with the carnival. Welcome aboard Jimmy, you look like you were made for it.”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Robert Spearman grew up in Hahira, Georgia, fifteen miles north of Valdosta. He attended Lowndes High School in Valdosta and Georgia Christian School in Dasher, Georgia. He has lived the past ten years in China and southeast Asia and is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.
He is currently working on his second novel entitled The Donner Syndrome which should be released later in 2015 and a sequel to Carnies and Wildcats entitled Escape from Oddities due to be released in the first half of 2016.
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