Summer's End (2013)
“I had signings to attend, interviews to give, and blog posts to write for friends. There were Halloween haunts to visit, decorations to photograph, and stores to shop in. I have a soft spot for cheap, completely useless Halloween kitsch that makes me laugh. I imagine the laborers at the manufacturing plant in China slaving over miniature Halloween skateboards and goblin finger puppets, and thinking that all Americans must surely be mad.
Then an e-mail arrived, with a generic name from a Gmail a...ccount. I almost dismissed it instantly as spam, but the subject heading read “Samhain query.”
Don’t open it, was my first thought.
But of course I did open it.
It was from Conor ó Cuinn. The gmail account suggested he was probably still under suspicion, and had sent this from some public computer. It was a simple message: “Scroll to page 147 in Armitage’s translation. Read the next ten pages. And remember what I said about us being the last Druids.”
I wanted to delete it and forget about it.MoreLess
Then an e-mail arrived, with a generic name from a Gmail a...ccount. I almost dismissed it instantly as spam, but the subject heading read “Samhain query.”
Don’t open it, was my first thought.
But of course I did open it.
It was from Conor ó Cuinn. The gmail account suggested he was probably still under suspicion, and had sent this from some public computer. It was a simple message: “Scroll to page 147 in Armitage’s translation. Read the next ten pages. And remember what I said about us being the last Druids.”
I wanted to delete it and forget about it.MoreLess
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