Aurora Magazine 2018

As I live and breathe, for the next ten minutes, that is. MARSHALL (CONT.) I’ve never seen you around here, boy. KYLE It’s my first day. (MARSHALL lets out a deep laugh that turns into a deeper cough. He quickly recovers, acting as if it did not happen.) MARSHALL Killing a man the first day on the job, that’s it America! KYLE Me? I’m not killing you. MARSHALL Not you! The government. Our government. You know the United States developed lethal injections? KYLE I… MARSHALL Damn right, they did. KYLE Well… MARSHALL The one good thing about lethal injection is the last meal. You know, boy, where you can choose anything to eat the day they sentence you to die? Well, I wanted to have a steak, medium rare. Wouldn’t even have to season it, some call it simple, I call it easy to please! But that damn greedy Brewer ruined that for all us Texans.

KYLE Who? MARSHALL

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