Mom and her normal son are living a normal life in a normal suburb. But suddenly mom starts to worry about the son and even be afraid of him. The son starts to do very odd things and to act strangely.

It all started when the son and his friend put firecrackers in the mom’s and the son’s cat’s named Trudy ears and butt. Of course Trudy died. The woman who lived right next saw the boys doing that and told to mom about it. She couldn’t believe it and asked it from the son but he did not tell anything.

When the son got his own car he bought a shotgun and a knife and started to keep them in the car. One day the mom found a bloody shirt from the back of his car. There were also the gun and the knife. The son said that he had a ”bloody nose”. The son was always lying about everything and even about the little things which are not worth lying. He lied about his wages and work days and school things. And mom always find out the lies.

One day they had an argument and a fight. Because of the fight the son backed his things and left away. She and he never saw again face to face and never talked to each others again. Mom saw him on the TV and on the paper often ’cause he joined the marines, got himself in the politics and elected to governor. He became famous. Mom thought that she had better to move out, change her name and phone number. Because the son was now a powerful man and it would be easy to him to find his mom.

This short story was written as a letter. The letter was written by mom, but I did not find out to whom it was written. The text was quite easy to read but there were lots of ”would” and sometimes it was hard to read because of that. The text was not clean and straight. There were not dialogues. The text’s narrator was reliable and credible.