Tales on Tuesday - My Favorite Martian

I have put Mr. Linky below if you wrote a story for this week. I still have not had a chance to read last week's stories and I have not written one this week. I have not even checked most of my emails in forever. My apologizes all around.

No matter how I wish it otherwise, there are only so many hours a day for me in this place and time. If I were orbiting the earth, I might gain a few one thousandths of a second but I doubt that extra time would help me much.

Friday I begin a vacation of nine days. I have not taken an actual week's vacation in about ten years. I will be staying home, except for short trips and visits, indulging myself with no place in particular to be. 

Please bear with me. I miss you all.

~ Tales on Tuesday Link ~

The theme for Tuesday, May 4, 2010 will be "Leave It To Beaver."

Do you have a TV show theme to suggest for future Tuesdays? Leave your suggestions in the comments.

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Tales on Tuesday – All in the Family

Serial killers fascinate me. Not what they do or their modus operandi; not who they kill or why. While I feel for their victims and the victims’ families, I am interested in the perpetrators. Who they were as children, who their families were and how they interacted.

To me, evil has always been cloaked in the ordinary. Monsters are not ugly, with misshapen toes or boils upon their noses. Monsters speak softly and beguile you with a smile. They are not crazy lunatics wrapped in faded and dirty blankets self talking as they walk down the street. They comb their hair and iron their shirts. They befriend your parents or hand out papers for the teacher, then do bad things in the woods.

Eddie raped and killed seven girls by the time he was caught at age nineteen. If he hadn’t been caught in the act on victim number seven, no one would have believed it. Eddie stood five feet four, had short brown hair cut trim. He wore button up dress shirts and creased his pants. He spoke quietly and never got excited.

There were several missing girls who the authorities believed were Eddie’s victims and very little evidence in the cases, so a deal was cut. The authorities allowed a plea of guilty due to insanity (Eddie couldn’t remember his deeds) and Eddie agreed to undergo psychiatric treatment and participate in a serial killer study. Eddie agreed to take sodium thiopental so the bodies of the six other victims (if there really were any, as Eddie would say) could be found and the families could have closure.

Serving a twenty to thirty year sentence in a psychiatric prison, Eddie underwent many hours of interviews. He was questioned about his past which he said was normal. He showed the doctors pictures of a close knit family: father, mother, two sisters and Eddie between the two girls. He did well in school. He went to church every Sunday with his family. His father was a lector. His mother helped with charities.

The doctors spoke Eddie’s parents. They were shocked that Eddie was accused of these things and had a hard time believing it. He was such an ordinary child. They stood behind their son in spirit and in body at all of his trials. They prayed for him. They never found any dead animals when he was little. He never fought them over any of the rules and they considered themselves fairly strict. Eddie was very punctual.

Eddie’s mother would not speak to anyone except her husband about Eddie. When the doctors first requested a dialogue to see if there was anything in Eddie’s past that might have led his parents to think something might be wrong with Eddie, husband and wife tried to recall any incidents that might have been clues. They decided nothing about him rang any warning bells. Mother did tell Father there was that one time that Younger Sister told Mother that Eddie had forced her to have sex with him, but they were sure that was just something boys did.

~ Tales on Tuesday Link ~

The theme for Tuesday, April 27, 2010 will be My Favorite Martian.

Do you have a TV show theme to suggest for future Tuesdays? Leave your suggestions in the comments.

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Still Orbiting Like the Space Shuttle

Like the space shuttle, I will remain in orbit until the weather clears.

Tomorrow is Tales on Tuesday. I will have a story to post. I hope you do, too.


It will be my mother's 76th birthday and the theme for Tuesday, April 20, 2010, will be "All in the Family." 
Suggested by Weirsdo.

      

Tales on Tuesday - Invisible Man - Intrusion Alert

I don’t even know what day it is. Well, I do now, but I didn’t then, which is why you do not see my story for Tales on Tuesday.

If you did write a story, here is Mr. Linky. I am not sure when I will be able to read your story but I will eventually.

I finally posted the limerick winner. No, I will not tell you here. If you want to know, go to Poetry Playing. I consider the first ever poetry contest test a success. Thanks everyone who participated either by submitting a limerick and/or by voting. If you have any suggestions for future contests, please let me know.

I will be around when I can. All is well. Just too much for now.

      

Poetry Playing: Poem-a-Day # 11

April is Poetry Month. Write a poem-a-day.

The prompt for today is: Write about things you see or a visual poem.

Here’s my poem:

 

 In the Moment 

blue skies shine on the other side of that rain

grass greened in the warmth of a sun burst

dogwood blossoms blushing a charming pink

lavender growing plump and well, lavender

lilac getting heavy with clustered flowers

but right now I must enjoy the rain 

April is poetry month.

Write a poem-a-day in April.

Visit Poetry Playing. Find out who won the Limerick Contest.

Tomorrow's prompt is up and you can catch up with the previous prompts.