Aurora Magazine 2018

MARSHALL (CONT.) Once you’ve had it, you’ll be prayin’ Heaven has food up there, I can guarantee that! KYLE You think you’re going to heaven? MARSHALL I don’t think it, I know it! KYLE You can’t be ser- MARSHALL (MARSHALL cuts KYLE off with his quick reply.) Dead. Serious. KYLE You think you’re funny? Well, if we’re talking about the same Heaven, and I’m pretty sure we are, murders aren’t exactly welcomed there. MARSHALL You believe everything you hear, boy? Everything the gov- ernment, “the man” tells you? You’re a good little citizen of this fine country. After all, you are here. Here watching all the murderers, pedophiles and junkies get killed off or just rot away. Eliminating the scum of the earth one by one. KYLE This is just a job for me. MARSHALL Being an “executioner” is just a job for you? Seems to me that you’re just as much as a murderer as they say I am. MARSHALL (CONT.) (MARSHALL quickly adds, matter-of-factly.)

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