Chapter Ten
Creeper stood before a mural dedicated to his brother Puppet with a blood red candle, which sat inside of a glass that had a picture of a crucified Jesus Christ on it. He rubbed his sobbing mother’s back with his freehand and watched as she kissed a portrait of Puppet and sat it in the middle of the already burning candles, flowers and cards. She then removed the rosary from around her neck, kissed it, and hung it over the portrait.
Creeper lit his candle and placed it alongside the others. He whipped out a .32 pistol and placed it beside the portrait of his brother. “For you, baby brother, just in case you run into a couple of knuckleheads up there.” Creeper kissed two of his fingers and placed them against the portrait of Puppet. He then stood erect and wrapped his arms aro
