Triple Witch (2012)
“They’ve got to be out here.”
A mosquito the size of a B-52 took an enormous bite out of me, causing me to be grateful for the multitude of little brown bats swooping and flapping all around me, feeding on the mosquitoes.
Or almost grateful; after the story I’d heard, a bat under a full moon was not the most reassuring image I could think of.
“That,” Hank replied quaveringly, “is what I’m afraid of. I know they’re out here, somewhere.”
We kept trudging, shining our flashlights—Hank had found a s...econd one and given it to me—into the shallow ditch along darkened Route 1, in the Moosehorn Refuge. Behind us the back doors of the ambulance still gaped wide, blown that way by the impact and now impossible to close.
When the doors burst open, the stretchers—each with a body on it—had flown out. The stretchers had wheels, so if they had hit the pavement, they could have rolled.
“You sure you’re okay?” I scratched a fresh mosquito bite.
“Yeah. Little bounced around, that’s all.MoreLess
A mosquito the size of a B-52 took an enormous bite out of me, causing me to be grateful for the multitude of little brown bats swooping and flapping all around me, feeding on the mosquitoes.
Or almost grateful; after the story I’d heard, a bat under a full moon was not the most reassuring image I could think of.
“That,” Hank replied quaveringly, “is what I’m afraid of. I know they’re out here, somewhere.”
We kept trudging, shining our flashlights—Hank had found a s...econd one and given it to me—into the shallow ditch along darkened Route 1, in the Moosehorn Refuge. Behind us the back doors of the ambulance still gaped wide, blown that way by the impact and now impossible to close.
When the doors burst open, the stretchers—each with a body on it—had flown out. The stretchers had wheels, so if they had hit the pavement, they could have rolled.
“You sure you’re okay?” I scratched a fresh mosquito bite.
“Yeah. Little bounced around, that’s all.MoreLess
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