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"You don't tell me, I tell you," the Vet growls through his tight lips. "You don't
know shit. I should've claimed your tight little ass on the first night." The Vet towers over
Don, eclipsing Don's folded body with his shadow. Don turns an eye upward at the Vet.
The Vet is a tough man of few words. Repeated counts of indecent exposure
landed him in prison for a year. Halfway through his term, a group of prisoners
surrounded him for a very lopsided game of guard the glory. That's what they yelled at
him- "guard the glory"- as they beat and raped him. The Vet got broken up so bad he
had to stay in the infirmary for three months, and nobody, including him, said a word,
even when he was able to talk normally again.
When he was strong enough to sit up, he started reading. He began meditating. He
stopped responding to nurses. He wouldn't answer questions about what happened. He
healed himself for vengeance. And when the day came that he was healthy and strong
enough to go back to his cell, during lunch, he killed two of his assailants. He spotted all
of them in a group in the cafeteria; they laughed when he walked in. They laughed as he
was passing them carrying his tray. Their backs were to him, and the Vet let go of his tray
and attacked the nearest one, grabbing him around the head and twisting his neck broken.
Someone else jumped on the Vet, and they wrestled to the ground, where the larger Vet
had the advantage by about sixty pounds. He used his weight to pin his opponent, whose
free hands punched and clawed at the Vet's face. Other's joined in. From beginning to
end, the entire assault took about as much time as it takes to watch a falling star or
experience ddj & vu. A group of guards converged immediately and broke up the small
riot. The Vet was bloody and unconscious, and in his hands he held his second attacker's
head, fingers wrapped around the skull and thumbs buried deeply in eye-socket mush. On
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McConnell, Michael Constantine. Outer Reaches of the Palindrome, thesis, December 2003; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4407/m1/10/: accessed May 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .