Murder is in the Details: Three Short Stories
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Ta, Ta, Tootsie, Bo-Bo, is quite loosely based on her friendship with her late business partner. His mother had pet-named him Tootsie Bo-Bo. The conflict in her relationship with Tootsie led to this short story. Perhaps we all feel some animosity in relationships. These feelings often develop over time.
In the case of Goodbye to the Wheelman, she usurped some incidents from a close friend’s marriage, which had ended. Disbrow has a long memory for stories, and she embroiders them to fit the story.
Corlyss Morrel Disbrow
I was born in Macomb, Oklahoma. My first writing was published in School and Community. I had two sons. One of them had "tongue thrust" a residue from his hard birth. He also had an injury to brachial plexus. "Ran's Villains", about his speech problems, and therapy, were written for this magazine. The editor who accepted it, commented that I have an interesting style of writing. I took courses in professional writing from the University of Oklahoma. I also have, hours in journalism from Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. I have many things published, from advertisements to articles, "Mechanicsburg Motorhead" in Car Collector and Car Classic. In my own business, D. C. Marketing & Writing Graphics, I have written reports and proposals for clients. I have two degrees in business, the second one is from St. Louis University where I received a master's degree.
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Murder is in the Details - Corlyss Morrel Disbrow
Copyright © 2011 by Corlyss Morrel Disbrow.
ISBN: Ebook 978-1-4628-9182-5
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Contents
Red Fear
Ta Ta, Tootsie Bobo
Goodbye To The Wheelman
This book is dedicated to my mother, Jane Elinor
Morrel, who is a noted Illinois poet. She has written
two major books of poetry: Wordings Like Love;
and This Paradox Shadow. She has read poems from
these two books at the Vachel Lindsay House here in
Springfield, Illinois.
RED FEAR
Jeanne says Negahnquet misses a lot even being as big as its name—all there is to it, is one main street and two grocery stores, a post office, and a library and my father and uncle run of the grocery stores. There’s a Baptist Church and a Methodist Church. That is the first question a new child is asked at school, "Are you a Baptist or a Methodist?
There’s Little River, red as the red clay it runs through, just full of crawdads making little puffs of dirt in the shallow water near the bank, where the little ripples of sand show through the blood-colored water. You can take a stick and poke where you think he’ll back up. All along the banks grapevines hang from the trees, big around as my arm.
You could swing almost half across the river, drop off and go all the way down until your feet touch bottom all gritty and muddy, and feel the cold bubbles coming up your calves like tiny bites. About half a mile and there is a trestle across the river. You can hold on to the steel beams and walk across underneath—it’s like a cage, but rectangular, not square. When a train goes over, it’s not as loud as you might think, but you can feel the bars vibrating under your hands like a tuning fork.
Sometimes, Jeanne and I walk down to the cemetery at the bottom of the steep hill in Negahnquet. It is very pretty there. It’s lined with weeping willow trees. Some of the graves have bits of colored glass. Bottles that someone thought were pretty. Some had turned blue-orange from the sunlight. Sunlight does beautiful things with glass. Sometimes it bubbles like it has been in a fire. There are vinegar bottles