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Peter Shull's avatar

Brutal, but evenly handled. I liked the way you passed off the perspective. Nicely done!

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Ray Downs's avatar

Thanks for reading it!

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Rebecca Goodall's avatar

Good lord Ray so gruesome but good. Not sure how I missed this one~

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Ray Downs's avatar

because of the bad original title!

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Jeanne S's avatar

My inbox says “Futbol Memories”. True I would have read “Bad Head” sooner. I’m slow to open sometimes but you are too good to skip.

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Ray Downs's avatar

It was my first choice but I thought I’d try to be mature or whatever. Never again!

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Daniel Martin's avatar

A HEAD OF THE GAME...pretty gory...compelling

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Shoni's avatar

I never regret opening one of your stories, but this one was borderline (for all the best reasons)! Where did this idea spring from, if I can ask?

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Ray Downs's avatar

My grandmother said she saw some kids kick a man’s head down the street back when there was a lot of crazy shit happening in Nicaragua. So I just thought about how that might have went down.

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Shoni's avatar

Jesus 😳. Kind of hoped it wasn't based anywhere near reality. People can really be assholes. Thanks for sharing!

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Ray Downs's avatar

To be fair, we don’t know what the guy did. 🤷🏻

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Shoni's avatar

Haha true. Not sure anyone deserves that though!

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Jaap STIJL's avatar

It might be interesting to compose a list of possible crimes or wrongs which would merit being decapitated by a man with a machete (New Cooking Show idea? Man With A Machete: Justice Served? And then of course, having the head kicked around in the street like a ball. That'd be quite a crime you'd have to commit for that but we could probably start the list with paedophiles, no? After due process of course, we aren't savages, after all :) (sorry, I live in Paris, land of the guillotine where they probably did something like this already in the late 18th century...)

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Ray Downs's avatar

Speaking of guillotine and Paris, the image is supposedly Robespierre.

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Logan the Lobotomizer's avatar

Awesome opening paragraph!

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