I wonder what he can possibly threaten me with, he’s already promised me my death. Opening my messages, I see he’s sent a picture. I click on it and find an image of the two boys, his guards, the stacks of money clenched between their teeth and wretched scorched holes where their eyes used to be....
Rotten Chapter 25 After I’m allowed to leave, I head out in the Charger, cruising surface streets. I try to convince myself that my drive is an aimless one, but I meander in the direction of the Daddy Long Legs Bar. I rub at a throbbing vein beneath the skin of my forehead, morose. I’m sorry, bos...
Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective. —P. J. O'Rourke Like a giant faucet, our business simply turned off. We had been running at full speed, erasing all traces of the dead from Southern California, and with little m...
