The Grandfather: A Narrative Fiction

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All the sudden, Matt heard the doctors yelling to bring in the other clone. He looked across, and saw an exact replica of himself. They grab its- his shoulders and force him down into another chair in an adjacent room. Matt couldn’t believe my eyes. The men forcing him down into the chair was Tam Lin, Daft Donald, and the three men he met in the back of the truck near the eejit pens. One of the doctors shut the blinds, and then Matt heard a gunshot. There was utter silence. Just then a doctor walks out with blood on his shirt and the other clone in his arms. He is holding it like it is something disgusting and he doesn’t want to touch it. He sets it down on the table right across from him. Right then, Matt lost it. He jumped up and start pounding on his back, and then the doctor turns around. It was Willum. This made Matt go back to his chair and just sit down. He was worn out, and all he wanted to do was sleep. He wanted to get back up and make Willum pay for what he did to Matt and the dead clone lying in front of him. All the sudden, there was a dark shadow that crept up behind …show more content…
One side of him was asking him if he should kill him, while the other was saying that he killed thousands of people already. He deserved it. Matt lifted the gun up to El Patrón’s head, and pulled the trigger. The round went off, and El Patrón fell to the infertile wasteland soil. Matt looked down at him, and saw blood dripping out of his skull. Matt fell to his knees, and started praying to the Virgin of Guadalupe. He prayed that if he had a soul, for her to spare him from hell and still allow him to join Celia and Maria in a time soon to come. Matt looked up and saw Tam Lin standing in front of him. Matt stood up and walked over to the truck. He climbed in and imagined himself back in the small house in the eejit fields, wishing he had never busted out the window and jumped out. He wished he was a clone that died in the cow’s

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