Steven Myers and his son developed diarrhea of the mouth after we left. Seems the old man was rabid. He said the Bible told him Max must die. Steve said he owed it to his best friend, Max’s uncle, not to let their faggot relative live and sully the family name. He added Max’s engagement had given him hope, but when Max broke it off, he remembered all his sons’ words as they were growing up about Max’s eyeing guys in the locker room and at parties, and concluded the boy was lost in the clutches of the devil.
Max became the target for radical extermination after he met me. Max didn’t take the news well. I was long acquainted with the absolute fear a person felt when he knew for certain someone wants him dead. Mortality looms large at the moment absolute fear strikes. So I completely underst
