Chasing the Dragon
“The news of the brothers’ deaths lay strewn on coffee tables and front porches. It was in the air at Cavelli’s. In the cigar smoke that clouded the back booth of Il Fior d’Italia, under the gold record of Tony Bennett. The cops had let Dante loose, and as he walked down Vallejo, still in his father’s pajamas, he could see the evidence of those deaths all about him. In the way the awning kiltered over Rossi’s Grocery, and in the bent heads of the old women inside Mara’s Pastries. In the eyes of ...the passersby. In the drooping clothes of the old Chinese man and in the fat ass of the tourist clutching to her chest a purse as big as Texas.
There were ghosts everywhere, Nanna Pellicano had said. The land of the living and the land of the dead, they overlapped.
Later that day Dante had an appointment with the Wus, and he needed to change. The cops meantime had made a mess of his father’s house. They’d pulled things out of drawers and left the drawers hanging out of the bureaus, extending like tongues in some kind of cartoon show.MoreLess
There were ghosts everywhere, Nanna Pellicano had said. The land of the living and the land of the dead, they overlapped.
Later that day Dante had an appointment with the Wus, and he needed to change. The cops meantime had made a mess of his father’s house. They’d pulled things out of drawers and left the drawers hanging out of the bureaus, extending like tongues in some kind of cartoon show.MoreLess
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