No Footprints
No Footprints
“I stopped outside and looked again at the card Kristi’d given me. My stomach clutched.
The guy at the desk was a friend of my oldest brother, John. They’d been rookies together. Then Sam’d been a freckled kid with straight sandy hair he’d failed at greasing back. Even to me, barely a teenager, he’d looked not yet formed. Now he looked like he’d melted—hair gone, skin sagged, even those freckles faded. Despite infuriating an array of cops and city officials over the years, John had made detectiv...e ages ago. What had happened to Sam that he was riding the desk?
When he smiled up at me there was a flicker of those days of hope and energy. ‟Hey, there, Darcy, how’s the movie business?”
‟I set up a car gag this morning. Had a street sign in fear of its life. How’re things with you?”
‟Good as they can be. Haven’t seen your brother in a while, though.” He didn’t add, ‟Not since John got all that publicity a while back, since he became a big hero.”
‟He’ll be glad I ran into you.”MoreLess
The guy at the desk was a friend of my oldest brother, John. They’d been rookies together. Then Sam’d been a freckled kid with straight sandy hair he’d failed at greasing back. Even to me, barely a teenager, he’d looked not yet formed. Now he looked like he’d melted—hair gone, skin sagged, even those freckles faded. Despite infuriating an array of cops and city officials over the years, John had made detectiv...e ages ago. What had happened to Sam that he was riding the desk?
When he smiled up at me there was a flicker of those days of hope and energy. ‟Hey, there, Darcy, how’s the movie business?”
‟I set up a car gag this morning. Had a street sign in fear of its life. How’re things with you?”
‟Good as they can be. Haven’t seen your brother in a while, though.” He didn’t add, ‟Not since John got all that publicity a while back, since he became a big hero.”
‟He’ll be glad I ran into you.”MoreLess
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