Uncle
A detailed Summary of Uncle
Uncle escaped. He took a handgun and descended into the cellar, and the
air resonated with the muffled sounds of a car backfiring. I hardly
knew either of them, he or Auntie. Daddy said he did it to get away
from her. That may be. Anyway, he left a fortune. A million, Daddy
said, at a time when a new Cadillac could be had for less than four
Today a Caddy is forty grand, Auntie is polluting the soil, my hair is
silver, and I can say with neither boast nor shame, that I have not
known another human critter whom I yet despise. Sitting at this
keyboard, I cannot name another. Surely one exists, I'm not that
angelic, but I can't produce one at the moment. This is not owing to
faulty memory; something much more splendid, and no credit to me.
But Auntie wronged Mom. A wretched soul, she wronged others, too; others
whom I love. Those happenings I've dismissed. But not Mom's.
We were the poor kin, the black sheep, victims of Daddy's wanderlust.
Poverty earns you that status when the others have money. And now an
injury prevented Daddy working, so Mom accepted the role of breadwin

could send the fatted congress and bureaucrats packing, reduce taxes by
roamed the halls of her abode, mindlessly, her existence of no more
secret and grace and humor. One thing I do know, like most moms in
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Approximate Word count = 752
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
Category: Novels
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