I Could Never Hurt a Kid

By Mark Fitzgerald

A man seizes an opportunity, rising soley out of chance, to perpetrate a perfect crime; a kidnapping.... of sorts. Getting out of the mess he creates is a bigger challenge than succeeding would have been. Along the way, his victim's father confronts challenges of his own and his own demons. A short little novel about resentment,integrity and not always getting what you wished for.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mark Fitzgerald
• Release date: Aug 19, 2011
• ISBN: 9781465714107

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I Could Never Hurt a Kid

Mark Fitzgerald

Copyright 2010 by Mark Fitzgerald

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Chapter One

I could never hurt a kid.

I have kids, two in fact, and I have never hurt them. Never laid a hand on a one of them.

But kids are a resource that can be exploited. Bruno Hauptmann knew it. And blew it.

Rich kids are always so beautiful. Regular kids can be too, but the rich kids just seem to be holistically blessed. Simple genetic principle involved. The rich guys get the pretty girls. Those traits, the trait of good looks don't seem to skip generations like other traits. They manifest in the very next generation.

Maybe the rich are just more better. Maybe they deserve all their blessings. Wasn't it the Calvinists who that so much, as to found their entire belief system upon it. God's chosen.

The unchosen have to fight the good fight to survive; to provide for the future of their young.

I am on of those whose fate seems not to have been ordained and guaranteed. My fate has been to struggle every damned day to make all things happen, that are vital for my family.

Not so for all families.

Every town in America has them. Royalty. A family with such prestige and power that they become synonymous with the town itself. Power and prestige, perhaps established long ago, but conferred upon their progeny, generation after generation. Divine genetics.

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