The Innsmouth Heritage And Other Sequels
“The latter category ranged from debt collectors and the police to Darren’s friends, who were all apprentice drug-dealers, and Tracy’s friends, who were mostly veteran statutory rapists. Not everyone took no for an answer, of course; the fact that debt-collectors and policemen weren’t really entitled to kick the door in didn’t seem to be much of a disincentive. It was, however, very unusual for anyone to use subtler means of entry, so Sheila was really quite surprised when the whitehaired man appeared in her sitting-room without being preceded by the slightest sound of splintering wood.“I did ring,” he said, laboring the obvious, “but you didn’t answer.”“Perhaps,” she said, not getting up from her armchair or reaching for the remote, “that was because I didn’t want to let you in.”Even though she hadn’t even reached for the remote, the TV switched itself off. It wasn’t a matter of spontaneously flipping into stand-by mode, as it sometimes did, but of switching itself off.
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