This is How a Town Ganged Up Against a Serial Bully

You saw nothing!

Aravind Balakrishnan
ILLUMINATION

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Photo by Jerry Zhang on Unsplash

Ken Rex McElroy was a 6-foot, 270 pounds, dark-complexioned, blue-eyed man who lived in Skidmore, Missouri. And his deeds were as daunting as his appearance.

Mr McElroy’s unofficial charge sheet was a parade of criminal activities ranging from petty theft to burglary, rape to child molestation, assault to arson and animal cruelty to several felonies. He was the complete illegal package.

But Ken rarely had to wrestle with the authorities, as people dare not testify against him. Prudence dictated that commoners steered their daughters away from Ken, remain tight-lipped on his animal cruelty, or pretend not to notice his boundless criminal indulgence.

For if Ken had set his eyes on someone, he would tail, torment and trash them. ‘You better not be the recipient of his wrath’ was the code by which the town lived.

Thus, Ken Rex was literally the town bully.

And he had a damn good lawyer on his side, who managed to pull Rex out of trouble, on the rare instances he had to be.

How do you think someone as intimidating and unassailable as Ken could be handled?

The town eventually found an answer.

The Rex-Trina marriage

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Aravind Balakrishnan
ILLUMINATION

Introvert or Shy? Not sure. Bibliophile or Cine-buff? Both. Nethead or Story-writer? Still dunno. All I know is I want to write to live and I live to write.