The Sundown Speech
“The carpet smelled of Jujubes. I looked at Lieutenant Karyl, lying belly-down beside me in the aisle. “Okay if I go out for popcorn?”
He said nothing; until I started crawling around back in the direction we’d come. A hand strung with steel cable clamped on my arm.
“What the hell do you think you’re doing?”
His whisper was as loud as another man’s bellow.
“Cover me.” I looked back over my shoulder and grinned. “I always wanted to say that.”
He had more to bring to the conversation, but a report... from the projection room cut him off. The bullet took a shard of polished mahogany off the arm of a seat a few inches above our heads, exposing yellow wood.
He let go of me, raised himself on one elbow, leveled the barrel of his semiautomatic across his other wrist, and squeezed the trigger.
He’d aimed high because of the ticket clerk. The slug struck the smile off Cupid on the wing in a ceiling vault. By then I was scrambling on hands and knees toward the exit.
One of the heavy doors was held open by a hinged prop.MoreLess
He said nothing; until I started crawling around back in the direction we’d come. A hand strung with steel cable clamped on my arm.
“What the hell do you think you’re doing?”
His whisper was as loud as another man’s bellow.
“Cover me.” I looked back over my shoulder and grinned. “I always wanted to say that.”
He had more to bring to the conversation, but a report... from the projection room cut him off. The bullet took a shard of polished mahogany off the arm of a seat a few inches above our heads, exposing yellow wood.
He let go of me, raised himself on one elbow, leveled the barrel of his semiautomatic across his other wrist, and squeezed the trigger.
He’d aimed high because of the ticket clerk. The slug struck the smile off Cupid on the wing in a ceiling vault. By then I was scrambling on hands and knees toward the exit.
One of the heavy doors was held open by a hinged prop.MoreLess
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