The Ax
“I’m in my office, and I’ve just taken out of the file drawer the last resumé, I’m just reaching for the road atlas, when Marjorie knocks on the door. I place the road atlas on top of the resumé, and say, “Yes?”
She opens the door. She looks worried, and a bit confused. She says, “Burke, there’s a policeman here. He wants to talk to you. A detective.”
Terror closes my esophagus. I’m caught, I know it, and everything was in vain. And I was so close. Standing, trying to find a reaction I can share... with Marjorie, I say, “Billy? Is it something about Billy?”
“I don’t think so,” she says. “I don’t know what it is, Burke. He’s in the living room.”
“All right.”
I step into the hall. The Voyager is closer the other way than the living room is this way. But there’s no point in that. I walk down the hall, while Marjorie goes back to whatever she was doing.
He’s in the living room, a slender young guy in a gray suit, on his feet, facing the sofa as he smiles at the framed print that hangs above it.MoreLess
She opens the door. She looks worried, and a bit confused. She says, “Burke, there’s a policeman here. He wants to talk to you. A detective.”
Terror closes my esophagus. I’m caught, I know it, and everything was in vain. And I was so close. Standing, trying to find a reaction I can share... with Marjorie, I say, “Billy? Is it something about Billy?”
“I don’t think so,” she says. “I don’t know what it is, Burke. He’s in the living room.”
“All right.”
I step into the hall. The Voyager is closer the other way than the living room is this way. But there’s no point in that. I walk down the hall, while Marjorie goes back to whatever she was doing.
He’s in the living room, a slender young guy in a gray suit, on his feet, facing the sofa as he smiles at the framed print that hangs above it.MoreLess
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