Don't Say a Word

by Patty Stanley

"No, I did not do it" sobbed Marian. But who would believe her? She held a blood soaked hammer in her hand. Her mother insisted that she was found kneeling over her five year old sister Shelby, holding a bloody hammer. Her mother told the attendants in blue jump suits that she had heard her daughter threatening her sister. As she was taken away in a black van, her sobbing became faint as the van drew away.