Breaking Point
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The sound woke me. I sat up in bed, my heart pounding. The morning was hot, humid and no breeze moved the sheer curtains at my window. I shivered even though my pajamas were stuck to my body. Then, I heard the sound again and I knew. It was Mother. She had been so afraid. In seconds, I was out of bed and at the door of my parents’ bedroom. Mother was sitting on the side of the bed, her head bent forward, her body shaking from low sobs. Daddy was sitting beside her, his arm around her shoulders. Between sobs I heard her say, “Oh, Mark, what have you done? What have you done?” “It’s going to be all right, everything is going to be all right, now,” he assured her.
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She heard his footsteps as he came up the hall, and wondered why he was back so soon. He walked into the room, over to the bed, dropped onto it with a deep groan and said, “I can sleep now. I’ve just killed Paul.”
A small town in mid-America is shocked when its most successful merchant commits murder. His daughter tells her father’s story as she lived it at age thirteen.
Breaking Point is a brief story of three generations of one family. It concerns an Irish immigrant great-grandfather and how his influence spread down through the generations into the lives of his grandsons: one the obedient grandson, one the alcoholic. The pressure between them, the weaker against the stronger, grew until all rationalization failed, thus, the breaking point. What will the verdict be?
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Marian VanHorn is the mother of two adult children. She had a successful career as a buyer in the fashion field in New York City, and went on to own her own fashion shop in Kansas City, MO. She retired to Del Ray Beach, Florida, and is now living a quiet life in Shreveport, LA.
“The years pass but the haunting memories live on.” — MVH
I would like to express my gratitude to Ronald A. Goebel, Ph.D., the artist who provided the cover for this book. His knowledge of life, his expertise with the computer, and most of all his patience, have guided me to closure on the account of this part of my life. I will be forever grateful. — MVH