The Never Boys (2005)
“Those five words browned, curled then caught fire on the oven’s hotplate. Dean covered the ashes with a saucepan lid then looked out the kitchen window again. Nobody.
Three days straight he’d come home to find the same note slipped under his door. He had strong suspicions about who the author was, even if he didn’t recognise the handwriting. It was definitely a local and definitely someone who knew his timetable. Driving to Michelle’s that third evening only confirmed his fears. Booking a drive...r with speeding, Constable Tom’s gaze locked on him as he passed in the Chevy.
‘Keen for another dive tomorrow?’ Dean asked, stretched on a picnic blanket, with Michelle beside him. They shared a plate of cheese, cabanossi, french onion dip and corn chips as they looked across the lowlands of Angaston.
‘Absolutely,’ she answered, following a fire engine racing through the streets. Its siren was off but its lights were flashing. Distant eucalypt wildfires cured the January night.MoreLess
Three days straight he’d come home to find the same note slipped under his door. He had strong suspicions about who the author was, even if he didn’t recognise the handwriting. It was definitely a local and definitely someone who knew his timetable. Driving to Michelle’s that third evening only confirmed his fears. Booking a drive...r with speeding, Constable Tom’s gaze locked on him as he passed in the Chevy.
‘Keen for another dive tomorrow?’ Dean asked, stretched on a picnic blanket, with Michelle beside him. They shared a plate of cheese, cabanossi, french onion dip and corn chips as they looked across the lowlands of Angaston.
‘Absolutely,’ she answered, following a fire engine racing through the streets. Its siren was off but its lights were flashing. Distant eucalypt wildfires cured the January night.MoreLess
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