Luckily, Eddie had only sustained a bullet graze across his upper calf and the emergency personnel were able to clean and wrap it sufficiently. Nevertheless, I’d already told him Luce and I would be taking him straight to the local emergency room for a thorough exam as soon as the paramedics fini...
“Bufflehead?” I noted that he had binos slung around his neck, too. “Yeah. What are you doing here, Stan?” “Birding.” “No. I mean, yeah, obviously, I can see that. But what are you doing right here, right now, while I’m here, right now?” He looked at me with flat eyes like I was babbling. Which I...
Instead, she tucked the gun in her shorts and aimed the rifle at Nigel. A dart zipped out of the barrel and imbedded itself in the big cat’s haunch. “That should knock him out for a while,” Kami called to me. “The shock wears off pretty quick, and I want to be sure you all are gone before he wake...
I hissed as I struggled with the steering wheel, trying to stop our slide into the road’s snowy shoulder and beyond it, a steep incline down to an ice-crusted ditch.The car’s spin accelerated. Trees on both sides of the road flashed past.I thought about Luce.I thought about Baby Lou.I thought abo...