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    Patrick
    Patrick
    Patrick
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    Patrick

    By Michael Williams

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    Patrick, is a story about a nine year old boy, who suffers at the hands of his father. After a terrifying life in the city, he and his family is forced to move from their house in the city to a home out in the country.
    Once they have moved into the old country home, the abuse by his father continues and Patrick makes promises to his mother to protect her and to give his father what he has coming to him. Then after two mysterious deaths in the family, the country home ends up empty.
    Shortly after the house is abandoned, there is a new family that moves in and a presence from the past forges friendship with another boy. When an old nemesis shows up to take on the family, the presence from the past takes a stand and fulfills promises that he once made in life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMichael Williams
    Release dateSep 26, 2013
    ISBN9781301279937
    Patrick
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    Michael Williams

    Michael Williams is an Adjunct Professor of Pharmacology with the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University in Chicago, IL, USA

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      Patrick - Michael Williams

      Patrick

      Michael Williams

      Copyright2013 By Michael Williams

      Smashwords Edition

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      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, and incidents are either the products of the Author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

      Introduction

      Patrick is a nine year old boy who lives in the city with his mother Ann, and his father David. They are evicted from their home due to the number of times that the police are called because of domestic violence. They leave that home and move into a nice farm house in the countryside. Things are good, but only for a short time, then the abuse caused by David begins again. Patrick and Ann, hoping the change in houses would calm things down, now live through the abuse all over again.

      After a short time in the new home, and after a mysterious death in the home, David learns that those who are not dead are not necessarily gone. When David is confronted with someone from the other side, he learns that even those that are dead can come back to haunt you.

      Follow Patrick as they move into the farm house and he goes through the abuse at the hands of his dad, and he experiences the horror of such violence. Read as one family is destroyed by violence, but the aftermath of that violence is the saving grace for another family. See how Patrick takes on his father, and promises to protect others in the house at all costs.

      But when a new family moves into the home, they are faced with violence from the past. See how the new family confronts the forces of the dead and how another boy makes friends with Patrick and how Patrick fulfills his promise to protect those in the house.

      Chapter 1

      It was a hot day, it was late afternoon, the sun was beating down and with not much shade the heat was on. Patrick, a nine year old boy who lived in a home with an abusive father, was sitting on the front porch with his mother Ann. She was a thirty something mother of Patrick, who was married to his father David. David was a thirty something, a mechanic by trade, and a drinker at night man. He would drink every night and when he was drunk he would get physically abusive to Ann and Patrick.

      The abuse was an everyday thing, and every night David would drink and yell and smack and beat both Ann and Patrick. The neighborhood where they were living was finally done listening to all of the fighting and yelling going on in their home, and the endless calls to the police. They had in the past tried to get involved but each attempt David would get angry and threaten all of them and drove them to the point where no body would try to stop it.

      Now, as Patrick and Ann sit on their front porch, while David was at work, a car pulls up into the driveway. Ann recognizes it as their landlord’s car, and the man that stepped out was the man that owned the home. He walks up to Ann and Patrick with a piece of paper in his hand. Ann knows in the back of her mind what that piece of paper is and what it will mean for her family.

      The landlord understood what they were going through, but he has had too many complaints from the neighborhood so he was there to do what he had to do to resolve the problems. He walked up to Ann on the porch and said,

      I am sorry Ann, but I have had too many complaints from the neighborhood. I understand the position that you are in but I have a business to run and I have to give you this.

      That is an eviction notice right? Ann asked.

      Yes, again I am sorry but I have to run my business. There are too many complaints from the neighbors about the fights, and the police have been called out here too many times.

      I understand, I am sorry but David can’t get away from the drinking. Ann replied.

      By the looks of the shiner on your eye, I would say your problems go a little deeper that just some drinking issues. The landlord said as he bent over and got a good look at her eye.

      Yeah, he gets a little out of control sometimes.

      Well, I am really sorry, but you all will have to vacate the home. This is a five day notice, and if you are willing to just go, then I will give you thirty days to vacate without getting the courts involved.

      I understand, thank you for giving us a little time. We will be out just as quick as we can.

      Again, I am sorry Ann. You and Patrick have been good tenants, but David is bringing you two down. If he would go I would be happy to have you two stay.

      Thanks, but I am trying to keep my family together.

      I understand. I will give you thirty days.

      Thanks again, we will be gone. Ann said as she watched the landlord walk back to his car and drive off.

      What does that mean mom? Patrick asked.

      We have to find a new place to live baby. Ann told him.

      Daddy is going to be mad.

      Yeah probably, but there is nothing we can do about it. Ann replied as she bent over and kissed Patrick on the forehead.

      Will I get a bigger room? Patrick asked with a smile.

      I hope so, we will find something. Lets go on inside and find something for dinner, your dad will be home from work soon.

      Ann and Patrick then went inside and Patrick went to his room to play, and Ann began to get something fixed for supper so that when David gets home he can have supper and not be angry and yelling about her getting something fixed.

      A couple hours after Ann was served with the eviction notice, David arrives home from work. He gets home, covered with grease and went to the refrigerator to grab a beer and headed to the shower to get cleaned off. On his way to the shower he yells at Ann to make sure that she has the supper ready when he gets out of the shower. As was the everyday routine, supper was already ready when he got home from work.

      When David got out of the shower and sat down to eat, Ann gave him the eviction notice that she had been given by the landlord that afternoon. He looked at the paper that she was holding out for him. He snatched the paper out of her hand and asked,

      What the hell is this?

      "The landlord came by and said that there have been too many complaints by the neighborhood about the fighting and the noise,

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