Fear of the Dark
“For the third straight day, he tried it several times, forcing himself to be patient, but it didn’t get him anywhere; if he had any friends inside, they weren’t making it known.
It was Saturday. The Cobra had been out of the downtown storage garage he normally kept it in for three days now, and it needed a wash. The passenger seat would never be the same; Townsend’s blood was still in the leather, though the stains it left behind after Gunner’s vigorous scrubbing could no longer be easily recog...nized for what they were, barring forensic scrutiny. There was a car wash a few blocks away on Imperial at Normandie, but Gunner drove past it to the Church’s Fried Chicken stand on the opposite corner and dialed Verna’s number from a phone in the parking lot. The line wasn’t busy; as it had Thursday night and all day Friday, it rang in his ear like a broken alarm clock. He slapped the receiver back onto its cradle and tried something different, something, in retrospect, he should have tried sooner: he flipped through a dilapidated copy of the phone book for a listing for Buddy Dorris.MoreLess
It was Saturday. The Cobra had been out of the downtown storage garage he normally kept it in for three days now, and it needed a wash. The passenger seat would never be the same; Townsend’s blood was still in the leather, though the stains it left behind after Gunner’s vigorous scrubbing could no longer be easily recog...nized for what they were, barring forensic scrutiny. There was a car wash a few blocks away on Imperial at Normandie, but Gunner drove past it to the Church’s Fried Chicken stand on the opposite corner and dialed Verna’s number from a phone in the parking lot. The line wasn’t busy; as it had Thursday night and all day Friday, it rang in his ear like a broken alarm clock. He slapped the receiver back onto its cradle and tried something different, something, in retrospect, he should have tried sooner: he flipped through a dilapidated copy of the phone book for a listing for Buddy Dorris.MoreLess
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