Dr. Jekyll and Grandma Heidegger

By Barry Rachin

Seventy-three year-old Grandma Heidegger recently killed a man in the alleyway behind Duggan’s Pharmacy. She shot him with a snub-nosed 38 caliber Ruger. The feisty woman, who concealed the weapon in a ‘flash, bang’ bra holster, harbors no regrets, no remorse.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Barry Rachin
• Release date: Jul 15, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463199817

Barry Rachin

About the AuthorBorn in Boston, Massachusetts, Barry Rachin spent several years stationed in Yokuska, Japan as a Navy medic caring for casualties during the Vietnam War. He has studied at the University of Jerusalem, lived on a kibbutz for a year and holds a degree in clinical counseling from Simmons College. A self-taught woodworker, he presently lives in Attleboro, Massachusetts with his wife and two daughters.

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Dr. Jekyll and Grandma Heidegger

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Barry Rachin

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Dr. Jekyll and Grandma Heidegger

A week ago Tuesday, I killed a man, my grandmother announced in an off-hand manner, as though she might have been commiserating about a new pair of orthopedic shoes or the unseasonably hot weather. Murdered, she corrected. The act was intentional, so it was more like homicide than self-defense.

In a perverse sense, she added, almost as an afterthought, I considered it my civic duty… moral obligation to send the bastard to an early grave, but I’ll explain that later, if you wish.

Before proceeding any further, it bears mentioning that Grandma Heidegger viewed herself