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Announcement

blue lights shine from the window sheers almost cover the windows and the house is lit outside watching from the road he can see them moving room to room arms of laundry pots of dinner waving papers fighting brothers and here he sits in his cold car slapping keys on the steering wheel knowing when he goes in he will rip their hearts out announcement * For Paul - who is courageous beyond measure

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Yoni Dvorkis

Date: 9/25/2009 11:05:00 AM

I wonder what he has to say that will so destroy the family. If he's the father or if he's a stranger that's another question (rip their hearts out figurative or literal). Very mysterious and broody. I love it. Thanks for sharing. -Yoni

Carolyn Devonshire

Date: 9/24/2009 7:39:00 AM

Very compelling, Veronica. There was a recent event here in Florida in which a man killed his own family of five and thenfled. What makes people do things like this? You really set the mood by describing the way this sinister man waits to enter the home, watchin his family move about. Perhaps he made a different type of "announcement," but my mind could not help but turn to the even that made recent headlines. I can only ask why things like this happen. Outstanding! Love, Carolyn