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Contents
01 RITA HAYWORTH AND SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
02 APT PUPIL
03 THE BODY
04 THE BREATHING METHOD
05 AFTERWORD
RITA HAYWORTH AND SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
There's a guy like me in every state and federal prison in America, I guess - I'm the guy
who can get it for you. Tailor-made cigarettes, a bag of reefer, if you're partial to that, a
bottle of brandy to celebrate your son or daughter's high school graduation, or almost
anything else ... within reason, that is. It wasn't always that way.
I came to Shawshank when I was just twenty, and I am one of the few people in our
happy little family who is willing to own up to what he did. mitted murder. I put a
large insurance policy on my wife, who was three years older than I was, and then I fixed
the brakes of the Chevrolet coupe her father had given us as a wedding present. It worked
out exactly as I had planned, except I hadn't planned on her stopping to pick up the
neighbour woman and the neighbour woman's infant son on the way down Castle Hill
and into town. The brakes let go and the car crashed through the bushes at the edge of the
mon, gathering speed. Bystanders said it must have been doing fifty or better
when it hit the base of the Civil War statue and burst into flames.
I also hadn't planned on getting caught, but caught I was. I got a season's pass into this
place. Maine has no death penalty, but the district attorney saw to it that I was tried for all
three deaths and given three life sentences, to run one after the other. That fixed up any
chance of parole I might have, for a long, long time. The judge called what I had done 'a
hideous, heinous crime', and it was, but it is also in the past now. You can look it up in
the yellowing files of the Castle Rock Call, where the big headlines announcing my
conviction look sort of funny and antique next to the news of Hitler and Mussolini and
FDR's alphabet soup agencies.