Where All Light Tends to Go

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Author: David Joy
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fuck was that you threw on him?”
    “Acid, man. Sulfuric acid a buddy of mine swiped from the paper plant over there in Canton.” Jeremy let into a loud whooping holler that rose above the screams for a second or two, and then he started laughing like he’d just witnessed the funniest thing he’d ever seen. His brother never said a word, nor did his facial expression change. I could feel my face turn. I could feel it still souring as the smell swept over me.
    “Well, who the fuck told you to do that? Who the fuck told you to bring that in here in the first place?” I was looking dead at Jeremy now, but he still had that smirk on his face. He had a leather work glove over the hand he’d thrown it with, and even that was starting to burn as a few drops of acid crept along the side of the pint jar he’d used to contain it. “Did my daddy tell you to bring that shit? Did my daddy ask you to handle it?”
    I could see that the mention of my father and what he might do for something like this forced Jeremy’s hand.
    “Sorry, man. It’s just, it’s just he wasn’t saying a goddamn thing. Bullshit. Bullshit was all he’d said and that ain’t going to cut it.” The funny smirk on Jeremy’s face turned sinister. “Your daddy asked us to get to the bottom of it, and he ain’t saying shit.”
    Robbie Douglas was still screaming, and if his eyes had held any tears to cry, they would have poured, but the skin was peeling where those eyes used to sit. He was still shaking hard in that chair, those wires still cutting, and none of us said a word until his body gave out and all that was left was heavy lifting and falling in his chest.
    “Now, Robbie, you know me as good as anyone and you know it’s not like me to sit and let this happen.” I put aside the toughness and went back to what I knew. “You need to tell me who else you talked to so that I can make it stop.”
    “I done told you, I ain’t said nothing to nobody, no time, and it wouldn’t matter if I had ’cause y’all are going to kill me one way or another, and I know it, and I’d rather it happen now, right now, right this fucking second.”
    Jeremy ran forward again and splashed another jar full of acid against Robbie’s face before I ever knew it was coming, and that meanness, the sheer meanness of what Jeremy did, seemed to spark a trail of gasoline straight to his brother. Gerald pulled out a curved skinning knife with a gut hook angled back from the end of the blade. There was a dangerous look in his eyes, a vicious calmness as if he knew he would not only keep pace with his brother’s actions, but also try to top him. He loped forward and yanked that knife back hard just above Robbie’s collarbone. The screaming let loose again, and I pulled a revolver Daddy had given me in case things went awry from the back of my jeans and pointed dead between Jeremy’s eyes.
    “I told you it wasn’t your place!” I tried to yell over the screams, but my voice seemed muted, like my lips opened and closed but no sound came out. “I told you Daddy sent me to handle this!”
    Jeremy didn’t say a word. He just stared down the dark hole of that barrel and kept his mouth shut, but out of the corner of my eye, I caught Gerald easing out from behind Robbie, face peeling, blood dumping out of his shoulder, and screaming. I mean screaming. I turned the gun on Gerald and backed myself into the closest corner I could find to where I could see both Cabe brothers at once. Gerald knelt down and wiped his blade against Robbie’s pants leg, and sheathed the knife to his hip.
    “Ain’t no need for us turning on one another!” Jeremy hollered. “Nothing good’s going to come of it!” And as Jeremy spoke that second sentence, the screaming stopped and all of a sudden his words were loud and clear.
    The three of us looked over at Robbie, his head fallen down to his chest, and that heavy rising and falling going slack. His breathing shallowed over the next few
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