The Story of Basil Basil

Basil was sentenced to five months in prison, but taken into account credit for time served while the case was being tried. The number of times he'd previously been reported or accused of domestic violence wasn't admissible in court so with such a relatively clean record, prosecutors were willing to offer Basil a sweetheart plea deal. When Basil walked out of jail 30 days later, one of the places he landed was an old farmhouse beside a junkyard. Nearby, under the floorboards of an abandoned motorhome, he found a rusty pump action shotgun.

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