Already Dead: a California Gothic
“But there’s nothing wrong with it.”
“How many people have you killed?”
“In my life? Two.”
“Counting prison.”
“Four.”
“And you say there’s nothing wrong?”
Falls had served his first sentence for killing his father.
“You come out with this shit about once a year,” he told Thompson.
“It seems like you don’t even know me, don’t even think about me at all, then all of a sudden here’s the weighty analysis.”
“Excuse me there? Who’s analysing who at the moment?” Already Dead / 81 Eventually Thompson ap...ologized to the dogs and gave them bits of sausage off a pizza he’d brought from town. “Whoops,” he said later, dropping half of it in the fire. The dogs cowered under a bush. One of them made a small high intermittent whistling noise that Falls spent a quarter of an hour tracing to the animal.
“He’s worried about something,” he told Thompson. “Maybe this strange-feeling weather, I don’t know. Do you feel it?” Thompson felt not much of anything by now, but he noticed the rain when it started and he stumbled wordlessly toward the truck.MoreLess
“How many people have you killed?”
“In my life? Two.”
“Counting prison.”
“Four.”
“And you say there’s nothing wrong?”
Falls had served his first sentence for killing his father.
“You come out with this shit about once a year,” he told Thompson.
“It seems like you don’t even know me, don’t even think about me at all, then all of a sudden here’s the weighty analysis.”
“Excuse me there? Who’s analysing who at the moment?” Already Dead / 81 Eventually Thompson ap...ologized to the dogs and gave them bits of sausage off a pizza he’d brought from town. “Whoops,” he said later, dropping half of it in the fire. The dogs cowered under a bush. One of them made a small high intermittent whistling noise that Falls spent a quarter of an hour tracing to the animal.
“He’s worried about something,” he told Thompson. “Maybe this strange-feeling weather, I don’t know. Do you feel it?” Thompson felt not much of anything by now, but he noticed the rain when it started and he stumbled wordlessly toward the truck.MoreLess
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