{"id":5498,"date":"2020-09-21T08:00:53","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T08:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/floridareview.cah.ucf.edu\/?post_type=article&p=5498"},"modified":"2020-09-21T08:00:53","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T08:00:53","slug":"evil-comes-in-many-ways","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/article\/evil-comes-in-many-ways\/","title":{"rendered":"Evil Comes in Many Ways"},"content":{"rendered":"

Listen, don\u2019t ever talk to strangers. If a stranger approaches you, run the other way and scream at the top of your lungs. Dios, I couldn\u2019t live with myself if you were ever kidnapped. Sorry, Manuelito, no trick-or-treating this year. But Mom, we\u2019ll have adults chaperoning and\u2026 <\/em>I don\u2019t care who\u2019s doing what. You shouldn\u2019t be outside at night, in the dark where it\u2019s easier to kidnap someone. Look at poor Jimmy Ryce, the authorities still haven\u2019t found him. He was walking home in broad daylight when he was taken. That could have been you. You\u2019re both the same age. Oh, stop rolling your eyes at me. Forget about going to the movies\u2014fasten yourself on the sofa and read those Goosebumps<\/em> books you like so much. I don\u2019t wanna read, Mom<\/em>. I wanna go out and play hide-n-seek. <\/em>You can\u2019t. Armando, you\u2019re his stepfather: tell Manuelito he can\u2019t go to no sleepover. What am I gonna tell him that he doesn\u2019t already know? <\/em>There\u2019s been talk of attempted kidnappings, the whole county is having a panic attack. Anyway, there\u2019s no reason to go out. Oh, no, Dios. Armando, didn\u2019t you hear? They found Jimmy; he was raped, his body mutilated with a bush hook, the parts buried inside planters, encased in cement. A Cuban balsero did it. I heard about it on La Cubanisima radio program. Do you know what this means, Armando? Yes, I do. Remember I\u2019m a balsero, too. <\/em>Now they\u2019ll point a finger at us hardworking immigrants. They\u2019ll tell us to go back from where we came.<\/em> That we\u2019re all rapists and murderers. That we don\u2019t belong here.<\/em> They\u2019ve done it before. That man has left a scorch mark on us all<\/em>. This never would have happened in Cuba, communism or no communism. Mom, that\u2019ll never happen to me<\/em>. But it can<\/em> happen to you, Manuelito; you can<\/em> be kidnapped and killed and buried inside planters. Mom, I need to go to school<\/em>. I can homeschool you. What about my friends<\/em>? You don\u2019t need friends: they\u2019re a distraction. Armando, tell him his friends are a distraction. Let the boy go out, willya? <\/em>Ah! You\u2019re no use. Manuelito, stay home and eat all the helado you want. Go on, read your little Goosebumps<\/em> book\u2014I\u2019m never reading <\/em>Goosebumps again! Jimmy Ryce never would have died if he was a character in a <\/em>Goosebumps book. <\/em>Stop screaming. Now, where is that boy hiding\u2014? Oye, Armando! Where\u2019s my son? I can\u2019t find him. Call the police! He\u2019s been kidnapped. Espera, wait, we don\u2019t know that yet. Maybe he\u2019s with un amigo? <\/em>He\u2019s dead, buried God knows where. Breathe, mija, breathe. Let\u2019s look for him. Miralo, here he is, hiding under the kitchen cabinet. <\/em>Manuelito, co\u00f1o, why are you hiding? Stop crying. All I wanna do is play with my friends. Please, let me go!<\/em> But there\u2019s evil in every corner. Go out through the front door, and it smacks you like a strong gust of wind. Sit down on the sofa, stay home. You\u2019re safe here, you\u2019ll always be safe with me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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