Death on Highway 99

George Murphy, a star of Stephon Highway 99. A defense play for you edited and directed by William Spear. Dear Julie, the clock here in my room has just struck seven, which means I have about an hour for writing this letter to you.

I guess already you've said, who's this from? What goes? So I'll tell you right off. Remember Morton Blake, Speed Blake they called me in high school? The guy who sat behind you in algebra two in chemistry?

That was more than seven years ago. And I'm writing to you because there's no one else in the world that I give a darn about. There never has been, Julie, since I saw you the first time.

Well, I sure had other plans about you, and that's probably a surprise too, because I never had the nerve to let you know I was alive before. But as it is with me now, this letter is all you'll ever know.

A letter telling what a mess I've made of things, what a mess I've made of my life. You see, Julie, it's because I always decided to leave what to do, Because I always was a coward.

That's why I never spoke up and told you back then. What I thought about you until it was too late. You married someone else. That's why I'm writing you the last letter I'll ever write.

You're a girl who can't even remember my face. That's why I'm waiting for Captain Shannon to come and get me. You see Julie, I'm a murder. Yes, in just a little while I'll see the squad car pull up outside and then all the fumbling mistakes will be over.