Essay Archive - Creative Writing: Who's in the Wall?
Creative Writing: Who's in the Wall?
At precisely 10:30 A.M. I got a call from a Mr. Machiano saying that
while renovating a palace his men found the bones of what seamed to be a human
body. When I got to the scene one of his men showed me to the corps. It had
dirty, out-of-date clothes draped upon its remains with a piece a rope beside it.
I asked Mr. Machiano how the body was discovered.
"My men were knocking down a wall and one of them found a skeleton with a
motlry on, and that's when I called you."
I asked whom he bought the palace from.
"A man I would say in his early eighties, named Montr....
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