Bed of Nails
“Chandler said as they traversed the parking lot of the Captain Vancouver Hotel. “All its ghastly horrors convened in one place.”
Stein flipped open his cellphone and held it up to his ear. “I’ll call the military and ask for a nuclear strike. Level this convention and we’ll solve all the world’s problems.”
“The nerve of this hotel,” Zinc huffed with mock umbrage. “What right does an American inn have to usurp the name of my hometown’s patron saint?”
“Every right,” Ralph replied. “I was born in Vancouver.”
“You don’t look Canadian.”
“That’s Vancouver, Washington.”
“Oh,” said Zinc, scrunching his nose as if he smelled a pulp mill. “That pretender.”
“We were first,” Ralph said, putting up his fists.
“A ninety-pound weakling. A poseur. Which once had the balls to suggest that we change our name.”
“Plagiarists.”
In truth, Zinc Chandler stood on shaky historical ground, as Det. Ralph Stein proceeded to point out. In 1778, the legendary Captain Cook sailed to this coast, seeking the passage ...that was reputed to link the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.MoreLess
Stein flipped open his cellphone and held it up to his ear. “I’ll call the military and ask for a nuclear strike. Level this convention and we’ll solve all the world’s problems.”
“The nerve of this hotel,” Zinc huffed with mock umbrage. “What right does an American inn have to usurp the name of my hometown’s patron saint?”
“Every right,” Ralph replied. “I was born in Vancouver.”
“You don’t look Canadian.”
“That’s Vancouver, Washington.”
“Oh,” said Zinc, scrunching his nose as if he smelled a pulp mill. “That pretender.”
“We were first,” Ralph said, putting up his fists.
“A ninety-pound weakling. A poseur. Which once had the balls to suggest that we change our name.”
“Plagiarists.”
In truth, Zinc Chandler stood on shaky historical ground, as Det. Ralph Stein proceeded to point out. In 1778, the legendary Captain Cook sailed to this coast, seeking the passage ...that was reputed to link the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.MoreLess
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