Stonedust (2010)
Stonedust
“But all bets were off when they saw me go cold the first time my life was threatened. It took one to know one, and the sociopaths present recognized a fellow killing machine long before I did. It was sheer luck I didn’t spend the rest of my life there for murder committed behind bars.
When I went cold, a survival genie slipped from his dark bottle. All thinking ceased and I made no conscious decisions. But while middle-class Benjamin Abbott III watched from a safe distance, the genie invent...oried weapons at hand: another two-by-four; a jagged half cinderblock; the catspaw nailpuller Duane had dropped. My hand took the catspaw—twelve inches of steel rod with a claw at either end. My legs delivered me inside the arc of Ted’s swing.
Ted had his own survival genie, a little more civilized than mine. He dropped the stud and backed away, muttering, “Jesus, what am I doing?” And then, when he realized that my survival genie was very reluctant to climb back into his bottle, Ted wisely turned and ran.MoreLess
When I went cold, a survival genie slipped from his dark bottle. All thinking ceased and I made no conscious decisions. But while middle-class Benjamin Abbott III watched from a safe distance, the genie invent...oried weapons at hand: another two-by-four; a jagged half cinderblock; the catspaw nailpuller Duane had dropped. My hand took the catspaw—twelve inches of steel rod with a claw at either end. My legs delivered me inside the arc of Ted’s swing.
Ted had his own survival genie, a little more civilized than mine. He dropped the stud and backed away, muttering, “Jesus, what am I doing?” And then, when he realized that my survival genie was very reluctant to climb back into his bottle, Ted wisely turned and ran.MoreLess
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