The Verona Chronicle (Interview with Locals of the Fighting)

The Verona Chronicle

         For the third time in their long-time feud, The Montagues and Capulets disrupted Verona’s peace. Earlier this afternoon, Sampson and Gregory, two Capulet servants, challenged Abram and Balthasar, men from the Montagues, to a duel, causing great uproar. Although authorities stated that the Prince was taking care of the incident, they wouldn’t give us any real information. When that happens, The Verona Chronicle heads straight to the streets to interview witnesses and find out what really happened.

“I was just buying my turnips in the market when I heard a loud ruckus down the street,” says local Veronica Strait. She had been just fourteen feet away from the violent fight. “ I hurried outside the shop and saw the two households fighting. Although they tried to stop them, my friends couldn’t control the men. This feud between these two households has gotten out of hand. The last time they caused a fight this big, my poor sonny Judas spent a week in the clinic for trying to calm them. Whoever was responsible for this scuffle should be executed immediately for Verona’s sake.”

Vladimir Riddle hates the stress these fights cause on his business. “If this fighting don’t stop, I’ll loose all of me business! Mrs. Strait was just about to buy one of me most expensive cuts of beef when all that racket started. She left immediately, and was the last customer I saw today. Those meatheads cost me a day's worth of work! I have to raise me family and I won’t be able to do that with those idjits cutting in!” Later, Mr. Riddle states that the only place the Capulets and Montagues should go is to the gallows.

         Parker Whalen, a young blacksmith, was the first to notice the fighting. “I watched the Capulet man, Sampson, I believe, bite his thumb at Abram, challenging him to a duel. Like any honorable man, Abram fought back. After scuffling for a while, the Prince, what a great man, stopped them. Although I agree with everything he does, I wish he had executed the men on the spot, but he was kind in giving them a warning. If I had been him, I certainly wouldn’t have shown so much grace and dignity. I believe that all other citizens will agree with me when I suggest that Verona would be a much grander city without the two families fighting over honor. Perhaps this shall be a lesson to the heads of each household, teaching them to keep affairs to themselves instead of sharing them with the help.”

All and all, Verona’s citizens are very disgusted with the behaviors promoted by the two families. If they have any sense, they’ll stop the fighting and declare a truce, making Verona an all around safer place.