Motor City Blue
“In short, no one who was still in the habit of reporting to authorities had discovered the corpse in the bathroom. Too bad. It would have given me an excuse to keep rolling.
There was just enough snow on the street to provide traction. I tooled into the lot I’d used earlier, left my car in shadow—of which there was plenty, the nearby streetlight having been broken out—and struck off on foot, taking a route I thought would bring me out behind Story’s. I had my revolver in my pocket this trip. I ...would have in any case, in that neighborhood after sundown. Wet snow soaked my feet through my shoes.
I got lost for a time in the medieval maze of streets and alleys that wound Caligari-like through the area, but dead reckoning finally placed me under a working light that stood kitty-corner from the blank expanse of building I was after.
The two garbage bags were still there, but the rats were gone, probably inside where it was warm. The door was as I had left it. Inside I clicked on my pocket flash just in time to avoid tripping over the same carton of books all over again.MoreLess
There was just enough snow on the street to provide traction. I tooled into the lot I’d used earlier, left my car in shadow—of which there was plenty, the nearby streetlight having been broken out—and struck off on foot, taking a route I thought would bring me out behind Story’s. I had my revolver in my pocket this trip. I ...would have in any case, in that neighborhood after sundown. Wet snow soaked my feet through my shoes.
I got lost for a time in the medieval maze of streets and alleys that wound Caligari-like through the area, but dead reckoning finally placed me under a working light that stood kitty-corner from the blank expanse of building I was after.
The two garbage bags were still there, but the rats were gone, probably inside where it was warm. The door was as I had left it. Inside I clicked on my pocket flash just in time to avoid tripping over the same carton of books all over again.MoreLess
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