Scavenger Hunt (2007)
“. . he woke up in darkness and heard someone knocking on his front door. He checked the clock, then eased out of bed and pulled on a pair of shorts. Before checking the peephole, he picked up the baseball bat he kept beside the door.Sugar Brimley waved back at him.Jimmy set the bat against the wall again, unlocked the dead bolt, and opened the door. “My building better be on fire, Brimley.”Brimley held up a red plastic cooler like it was the holy grail. “I come bearing gifts.”Jimmy stepped back... as Brimley edged past him. He wrinkled his nose at the smell of the retired cop, a combination of salt, sweat, fish, and beer.“I don’t know why you’re so grumpy. It’s Wednesday morning, not the weekend. You should be up anyway. What’s the fun of being retired unless you working stiffs got your shoulders to the wheel?”Jimmy yawned.Brimley set the cooler down on the kitchen floor, then bent down beside it. His light blue trousers were soaked, stained dark with fish guts, the fabric glistening with iridescent scales, a sheath knife on his belt.MoreLess
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