Short Story 79: Kevin Malone

Marc Aramini · 02 Aug 2014, 21:55 · from 2014-August.txt.gz

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From: marcaramini at gmail.com (Marc Aramini)
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2014 14:55:48 -0700
Subject: (urth)  Short Story 79: Kevin Malone
Message-ID: <CAF1072y3+2uHpZxW9cOAD7BgtaT5JvPgV_dcj-WMhSQjyRR4xg at mail.gmail.com>

Wait wait ...

The twenty year difference between priest and Marcella and between Betty
and Kevin Malone must resonate ... The guilt of Kevin is assumed by his
namesake but Priest says it was never proven.  Both Marcella and the
narrator are jealous of Priest, the older man.

Could it be that Betty was the master's mistress and fell for Kevin Malone
(since they were not related in fact). Yet the younger Kevin seems
malevolent when he thinks of young women, and he is home in the stables
where the older Kevin died, so that scenario doesn't quite pan out. It
seems most likely that Kevin's spirit motivated the scenario to repeat,
unless he feels that justice was not done the first time through the
cycle and killed himself in grief. Was Betty ever pregnant? The news report
indicates no relationship between Kevin and Betty Malone and no child...
But Kevin Malone the younger exists and the new cycle has a couple jealous
of an older servant ...
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