Summary

In “The Clothesline,” the clothesline believed to have been used to tie up Shepard speaks about what McKinney and Henderson did not only to the clothesline but also to Shepard by hanging them both out to dry.

In “The Pistol,” a list of words describe the pistol that was used as a weapon on Shepard.

In “Witness,” there is a description of how only the man in the moon witnessed what happened to Shepard and how the man in the moon wished that he could do something to help.

In “The Fence (that night),” the fence describes how it held Shepard like a mother might have done through the night even though the man was like a “dead weight” (26). It describes how Shepard’s heart would not stop beating and how the truck driving away was the last thing...