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Hate and jealousy age like poor wine,

curdling, corked up.

It swells with the taste of anesthesia and a damp cellar.

Thoughts like parasites multiply in the bubbling spoil. Past boiling, roiling temperaments. Temperatures build. Pressure rising, plans dev plodding each step with brick and mortar.

And far from exploding, the mess is stored, out of sight and out of mind, chained in the dark

where none will find. In this story, one man's sinister legacy comes to light.

His secrets long outlasting.

The Cask of Amanteado.

The Casp of Amontiado, written by Jake Weber, based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe,

2021. If you are hearing this, I am speaking to you from the grave. This is not a confession. I do not regret what I did then

or since. I treated the world as it treated me. It told me I had to fight for everything.

They all looked down on me. I was never accepted because I didn't look or sound like them,

because I wasn't from the same class as them.

My parents were Italian immigrants who worked hard when they got to this country.

I was the youngest of seven and the apple of their eye.

I became a Somalié, and the American dream meant I could rise above my station. But there is only

so high a first generation Italian-American kid born in 1951 in Bayonne, New Jersey can aspire.

There is fine print in the brochure.

They all thought they could condescend to me, patronize me, but I'm Sicilian, and we never forget a slight.

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