Mere child to a Ruthless Bow-Slayer

By Michael P Buckley

Mere child to a Ruthless Bow-Slayer

Bryan lost his father at eight, he was returned to him in a box from Vietnam. At the age of fourteen he lost his mother and brother to a drug overdose. He is all alone and at fourteen he seeks revenge on the people who killed his family.

Armed with only a bow he will set out to rid the neighborhood of gangs and drug dealers. In a way that gives fear a new meaning.

Word count:16,286   contains violence and cuss words.
 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Michael P Buckley
• Release date: Nov 24, 2013
• ISBN: 9781497770638

Michael P Buckley

Michael Buckley is 61 years old, currently living in the Philippines. He served 3 1/2 years in the US Army in the Infantry. He worked in Iraq for seven years, and Afghanistan for one year. He enjoys writing stories from his vivid imagination.  Michael's Blog can be found here: http://mikga45.blogspot.com/ https://www.facebook.com/pages/Michael-buckley/131615023677907 https://twitter.com/mikga45

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Mere child to a Ruthless Bow-Slayer

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‘Kevin... KEVIN he SCREAMED get up, come on, go for a walk, and shake this off. Kevin was pale in color and lifeless. Bryan felt for a pulse but there was nothing, nothing at all. He panicked and ran to the Kitchen and got a big pitcher of cold water and threw it on his older brother, Still, no response.

His brother’s eyes glazed over and his lips were turning blueish in color. When he touched his arm, it was cold. There was a syringe still hanging from his arm when he found him lying on the floor. Bryan started to scream for his mother. Ma, ma he screamed at the top of his lungs to no avail. He opened his mother’s bedroom door and there was a man in bed with her, there was always a man. That is how she got her money to buy the drugs in the first place.

Kevin must have found the heroin lying on the table, which his mother often did. Because she was always so high, she did not even know if she was awake or a sleep most of the time. Was she having a dream, or was it real.

He screamed at his mother that Kevin looks like he’s dead. And with that, the man with her ran out of the house as fast as his legs would carry him. He shook his mother and she said what... what. I told her to get up and take care of Kevin, she went back to sleep. I called the ambulance and the police for my brother, but I knew it was useless he was already dead. He threw water on his mother and told her that the police were on there way to their house. She had better get up. Would not look good on her part to have a dead son in the living room: while she was sleeping off a night in the abyss of heroin.

Bryan was his fathers pride and joy. When he was only seven years old, his father would take him to a near bye schoolyard. No longer used, they would shoot the bow and arrow. His dad had found a nice small kids bow, he had the strength to pull back. By the age of eight, Bryan had impressed his dad. On his eighth birthday, his dad bought him a new bow. Bryan loved the bow.

His brother Kevin who is sixteen now, two years older then Bryan was always a mama’s boy, and my dad and Kevin never got along.

Bryan and his dad would hunt and fish together and they were more like friends than father and son. His dad’s name was James Moore and he loved his father. Late 1967 his father at twenty-six decided to join the army to serve his country. He went to college and received a bachelor’s degree in business management. At twenty-three, he worked for a nice company in Atlanta who paid his father well. He was a store manager of one of the major grocery stores in Atlanta.

When his father turned twenty-five he bought his first house, and him and mom were very much in love and happy.

They had a very good family before his father went off to Vietnam.  In 1968, sent to Vietnam where assigned to the 7th cavalry and his unit fought in the A Shau Valley, post Tet counteroffensive. Later that year he arrived home in a box with a Silver star for heroism. They came under attack and he was an E-5 Buck Sgt and newly appointed squad leader. After the squad leader they had before was killed. Two of his men wounded and pined down with machine gun fire. He knocked out the bunker with a hand grenade, and than they shot him in the shoulder during his assault, with machine gun fire. He continued even though wounded himself, to bring his two wounded team members to the helicopter for rescue.

The VC came from an underground tunnel towards his company with automatic weapons fire.

He engaged the enemy killing five more, mortally wounding himself, in his final heroic act to save his company. His father was a war hero but he was dead, and Bryan has lost his dad and best friend. Six years have past, Bryan was now fourteen without a father, and now he had lost his only brother. His mother finally did wake up when the police arrived but she was so high she could barely walk and when she saw Kevin, she kind of lost it, and said this has all been her fault before passing out.

"The Ambulance took his mother to the hospital and the coroner took my brother to the morgue after the medical examiner officially said he was deceased. He did not think his mother was going to