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- Little Jimmy Barnes: Adventures by Night -
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By Lars Rindsig
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In 1960, little Jimmy Barnes was eight years old. He lived in Reafville, a
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small town outside Flint, Michigan, with his parents and the family dog, a
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chubby, old St. Bernard that was named Stick which was little Jimmy's first
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word, which he spoke while hugging the dog grinningly and sucking on its
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tail.
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The little family was a quite happy one; Jimmy's father, a tall and thin man,
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who loved his wife and child and would do anything to protect them from
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getting hurt in any way, worked as an accountant at the local carplant and
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his mother who was called Doris stayed at home, taking care of the house -
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and Stick - and preparing lunch for Jimmy when he came home from school.
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Jimmy did not care much for school - it bored him, but most days he went,
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except when he and two of his best friends, Frank and Grant, went 'trekking'
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into the nearby woods. They would chase small animals, squirrels and such,
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and when they got tired of this they would go to Mr. Petersen's ice cream
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stand, where they would buy a milk shake or a Coke. Sometimes the boys would
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catch the early shows in the town's theatre, at that hour there was seldom
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many other visitors in the cinema, and Jimmy and his friends had the place
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pretty much to themselves and they could make as much noise as they required
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to enjoy the movie properly.
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One day in May as Jimmy came home from school (in Mrs. Harvey's class they
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had dissected frogs. Jimmy found this to be as much fun as he had ever had
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in school) he found a note from his mother which said that she had gone to
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the Ness' house for an hour or two. "You know where to find the milk and
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cookies.", the note said and Jimmy did. He entered the kitchen and found no
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less than three cookie jars which he brought into the living room where he
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placed himself in front of the television set. Besides the Barnes' only two
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other families in the street had a TV and Jimmy was the object of the envy
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of many. He felt good as he switched the set on to watch the Stephen Heller
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Show, which was a show that was broadcast from Michigan's own TV-station. He
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sat cross-legged in front of the television, hands deeply buried in his
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mother's cookie jars and his eyes closely following Stephen Heller's every
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move and listening to Heller's comments to his guests. It was not always
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Jimmy understood the joke but the studio audience laughed and Jimmy supposed
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that it was funny then and laughed with them.
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Suddenly he heard a thump behind him, he quickly took his hand out of the
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cookie jar, afraid that it was his moher who had come home and surprised
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him red-handed, eating her cookies and watching TV without his father's
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permission. Slowly he looked around the room only to see Stick in the door
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jogging towards him. "Oh, it's only you. Gee, Stick, you really scared me
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there. Good old Stick," Jimmy said and walked over to the large animal and
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took the tip of its tail in his mouth - a habit he had had since he was a
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baby. With the tail in his mouth he mumbled "Stick," and threw his arms
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around Stick's belly. But Stick wanted otherwise. With his nose he directed
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Jimmy towards the garden door. "What's up, Stick. Is there something you
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want to show me? Or do you want to play?" Stick slowly walked over to the
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garden door and patiently waited for Jimmy to put on his shoes and then open
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the door for the both of them to go out in the garden.
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It was hot and Stick made Jimmy follow him into the shade of the hedge.
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Around the Barnes-family's garden there was a large hedge, which was planted
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there in the 1930's by a previous owner. Jimmy's father trimmed it and so the
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edges were straight and the hedge was all in all quite nice to look at. But
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thirty years of children and animals playing had given the hedge a large
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number of small caves and hideouts from cats and parents. It was one of
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these caves that Stick made Jimmy enter. It was a quite large cave. It was
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almost as high as the hedge was tall and almost as wide as the hedge too. It
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was large enough for a grown man, an eight-year old boy and a large St.
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Bernard to fit in there without any problems. And they did.
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In the far end of the cave sat a man. He wore a business suit and a hat. As
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he noticed Stick and Jimmy enter he smiled at them and put out his
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cigarette. "Hello, Jimmy," the man said. "Y-y-you know my name?" Jimmy asked.
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He was startled. "Who are are you ... and-and ... what are you doing in our
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hedge ... and ... who are you ...?" The man discontinued Jimmy's stuttering
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with a movement of his hand and a smile towards Jimmy who now suddenly felt
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very calm and secure with the man. The man continued to smile as he said "I
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know you now no longer have any interest in who I am but I'll tell you
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anyway." He winked one eye at Jimmy who now truly did not care who the man
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was and what he did in the hedge. The man continued "You don't know me and
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yet you do." The man smiled broader, grinning at his little play of words.
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"You see, I am what's inside you and your pa and your mommy too, Mrs. Harvey
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and principal Black. I'm what's inside everybody. I'm their anger and guilt.
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Sometimes I have to take action and I need some one to help me. 'coz there
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are some things I can't do myself. Can you understand that, Jimmy? You know,
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old Stick here already helped me by bringing you out here. I'm sure Stick
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would've helped me with what I have to do but I'm afraid he can't. But you
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can and Stick will assist you. Will you help me, Jimmy?"
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"Sure," Jimmy said, smiling a little insecure at first but then, after
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looking the man in his eyes and seeing his kind smile, it turned into a
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merry grin all over Jimmy's face.
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A little while after Jimmy came out from under the hedge. Stick followed him
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as usual and he poked Jimmy with his nose as they walked towards the house.
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Fortunately, Jimmy's mother had not returned from Mrs. Ness' yet and Jimmy
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quickly put the cookies in the cupboard where he got them and did not turn
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on the TV-set. Instead he went into his room where he began to sort his
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baseball cards. He had a lot. More than two hundred. His father had given
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him a lot of cards and even brought him to Flint to see a major league
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baseball match and he had promised Jimmy that he would give him all of his
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cards for Jimmy's ten-year birthday. The father had almost four hundred cards
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in a box in the attic and Jimmy knew that he would never get any of the
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father's cards. But he had promised to help the nice man and he felt that it
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was more important to carry out his task than get the father's old baseball
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cards.
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When he had finished sorting the cards Jimmy went out in the kitchen and
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found a lambchop on which he fed Stick. A little while later his mother came
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home and made him a glass of warm milk. Besides stealing the meat for Stick
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he did nothing unusual for the rest of the day. At nine he went to bed.
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He lied in his bed for half an hour and then - without a noise - he got up.
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Still in his pyjamas he opened the door and went into the dark hallway and
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into the kitchen, making sure his parents did not hear him from the living
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room where they were watching The Fugitive. In the kitchen Stick was
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waiting. "Good boy," Jimmy whispered in his ear and sucked quickly on the
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dog's tail. Then Jimmy rose and got a large and sharp knife from the drawer
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where his mother kept the cutlery. It was the same knife his mother used
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when she cut large humps of meat or the like. Knife in hand and Stick by his
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side Jimmy walked - as silent as possible - towards the living room.
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In the door he stopped and contemplated his parents. His mother was half
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asleep, resting her head on Jimmy's father's shoulders as he carefully
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watched the TV where Jimmy saw the one- armed man escaping through a window.
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"Now, Stick!" Jimmy said silently and Stick leaped with an unknown force
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onto the couch where its jaws closed around Jimmy's mother's neck. She
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screamed terrified as she woke up from her doze and Jimmy ran to his father
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and with a growl far too deep to be of his own voice he slashed his father's
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throat. The blood sprinkled from the father and most of it hit Jimmy who held
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his mouth open, trying to swallow as much as possible as he drove the
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knife's large blade in between two of the father's ribs.
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After drawing the knife out, with an enormous strength he smashed the
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father's left rib cage and then turned to his mother who already lay
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lifeless, her neck broken by Stick's strong bite. Jimmy laid his mother on
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the floor and with the knife, which had begun to feel good in his hands by
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now, he cut up her face, parted it the best he could and then broke her ribs
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too by jumping down on them from the couch. It was hard work and Jimmy had
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begun to sweat but he did not mind it and continued his deed.
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He took of the father's shirt and turned him so he lied face down. Jimmy
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then began to cut a pattern without really knowing why or what he was
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carving into his father's back. When he had finished he saw that it was a
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pentagram and in the middle there was an eclipse with a straight line
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through. Even though Jimmy had never encoutered this sign - or for that
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matter a pentagram - he instantly knew what it was. He smeared the blood of
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his parents on all parts of his body that were not covered by his pyjamas
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and then went into the garage where he got several cans of gasoline. They
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were heavy to carry but it was well worth the burden, Jimmy knew. He poured
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gasoline all over the house. As he finished he got a box of matches from the
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kitchen. He had seldom been trusted with lighting matches in the past but he
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was now his own master. He went to a room in the other end of the house and
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there struck a match, setting the house on fire.
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Without any rush he went back into the living room where he took Stick by
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the collar and led him trough the sign on his father's back, following Stick
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closely was Jimmy himself....
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