—When you take something that doesn’t belong to you, there is nothing to say about it. You took it and you shouldn’t have. I took it and I shouldn’t have.
This story seems like a simple one on the surface, but I feel like underneath there’s a little bit more going on.
The narrator has done something that he knows is wrong, although he can’t articulate why he did it, and now he’s still sort of lost and trapped in the midst of the fallout from getting caught.
I liked the way the game the children played mirrored the potential punishment the narrator could have faced if charges had been brought, while also mirroring the real self-imposed and familial punishment he was actually experiencing. He was “the Man” and the prisoner. Maybe at the end he was a little less the prisoner.
I rather liked this one. At least it hit the spot for me today on my lunch break. Nothing too intense.
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