Easy Prey
Easy Prey
“THE FIRST day of the Alie’e Maison case.
The morning was cold, even for mid-November. The lake, a hundred miles north, would have frozen over for sure, Lucas thought. He stood at a gas pump, trickling fifteen gallons of premium into the tank of the Porsche. Two blocks out of his driveway, running for the Alie’e Maison scene, he remembered about the gas—he didn’t have any. Now, at the least convenient moment, he’d had to stop.
He yawned, and peered around. The gas station attendant sat in an arm...ored-glass booth, punching with his thumbs at a Game Boy, like a figure in an Edward Hopper tableau. Lucas didn’t register Hopper; instead, he wondered idly why gas pumps no longer dinged. They used to ding with every gallon or so, he thought, and now they just rattled off yellow electronic digits, gallons and dollars, silent as the night.
Another car, a small Lincoln, the one that shared its frame with a Jaguar—Lucas knew about the Jaguar, but could never remember the Lincoln’s name—pulled into the second set of gas pumps.MoreLess
The morning was cold, even for mid-November. The lake, a hundred miles north, would have frozen over for sure, Lucas thought. He stood at a gas pump, trickling fifteen gallons of premium into the tank of the Porsche. Two blocks out of his driveway, running for the Alie’e Maison scene, he remembered about the gas—he didn’t have any. Now, at the least convenient moment, he’d had to stop.
He yawned, and peered around. The gas station attendant sat in an arm...ored-glass booth, punching with his thumbs at a Game Boy, like a figure in an Edward Hopper tableau. Lucas didn’t register Hopper; instead, he wondered idly why gas pumps no longer dinged. They used to ding with every gallon or so, he thought, and now they just rattled off yellow electronic digits, gallons and dollars, silent as the night.
Another car, a small Lincoln, the one that shared its frame with a Jaguar—Lucas knew about the Jaguar, but could never remember the Lincoln’s name—pulled into the second set of gas pumps.MoreLess
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