From “Fear and Retribution” in the Kindle Book: A Week’s Worth of Fiction Volume 1 “That’s how it was with the Mc Cants and me. I minded my own business , didn’t get into theirs and I think they kind of respected me for that. I didn’t really stand up to them but in my mind I didn’t have to. They bullied most folks in the neighborhood but pretty much left me alone.

From “Fear and Retribution” in the Kindle Book: A Week’s Worth of Fiction Volume 1 “The Mc Cants' lived in a big, old house up the street from my small apartment. Some say that Mr. Mc Cant won it in a poker game or that Mrs. Mc Cant cast a spell on the previous owners. Many, however, believed that they acquired the house through some sort of meanness or trickery many years ago, when Amos and Amberline were younger.