The Wall :: Creative Writing Essays

The Wall         At precisely 1030 A.M. I got a call from a Mr. Machiano saying thatwhile renovating a palace his manpower found the bones of what seamed to be a humanbody. When I got to the scene one of his men showed me to the corps. It haddirty, out-of-date clothes draped upon its remains with a piece a rope beside it.I beged Mr. Machiano how the body was discovered.      My men were knocking down a wall and one of them found a skeleton with amotlry on, and thats when I called you.         I asked whom he bought the palace from.        A man I would say in his early eighties, named Montresor.         I then left to learn near this person..  I found out that he was livingwith a cousin right near his old home.  I decided to stop by and ask him a fewquestions hoping he would remember or know just aboutthing.  After about an h our ofgetting I do not know. What are you public lecture about? Please leave. I realizedthis was a waste of time and decided to go.           The next morning I called Mr. Machiano and asked him to meet me at thepalace.  As I approached the area where the body was found I began to feel alittle queasy.  I searched the ground around the body hoping to find some clues.I observe the sparkle of metal pertruding from the ground.  I picked it up andsaw it was a gold and diamond ID watchstrap with the name Montresor inscribed onit.  I decided to do a little to a greater extent research on this man.  I went to the stationand asked the secretary to show me the file on any person missing for more than20 years.  The list only had about five people on it with a brief description.There was a man by the name of Fortunato on it who has been missing for about 50years.  He was closing curtain seen wearing a motley.  I then put two and two together andafter some investigation, I found out that the remains were indeed Fortunato.Later that afternoon I decided to visit Mrs. Fortunato.  She took the newspretty well, she had suspected he was dead.         The last time I saw him was fifty years ago during carnival season.      I went back to Montresors house and told him that next to Fortunatos bodywas a gold bracelet with his name on it.  He still insisted he had had nothing