She Walks in Beauty (2014)
“In no time at all it starts to back up on you.
Hush up, she said. I’m trying to watch my game show. Bill Carroll and “The Big One.” Though Bill Carroll’s not on. Who’s that?
You’re just hiding, Gloria. Don’t want to face the truth. Isn’t that what you always tell Junior? Boy, God knows what you been doing. No peeping and hiding with Jesus.
It was true. What kind of role model was she for her son, stealing that Kurt Roberts’s racehorse money? Taking from a dead man. Just like stealing the silver coins off his eyes.
Now, wait a minute, said her conscience. Even I don’t know the dude’s dead.
Yeah, and we’re not gonna know, are we? I sent Clothilde out of that room, cleaned it myself. Removed every trace of him. Every fingerprint. Now there it sits. Empty as a tomb. I opened the door about 200 times today, hoping the man’s back in it. And is he? No.
Did you ask Junior what he’d been up to, since that’s what you’re so afraid of, Junior did a number on that sucker?
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