Even at the Kettricks’ unkempt house, the world looked almost perfect on the outside. On the inside, windows were blocked from the light and dust floated heavily in the air, creating an entirely different universe."I remember," Kettrick said.He lounged on the musty striped couch in his living roo...
A painted torpedo toy streaking through the vault of sky, stuffed with human beings ignoring their precarious situation.Most people were sleeping. Elliott had purchased an airplane pillow at the airport. He slouched in his seat, pulled the inadequate blanket to his chest, leaned his head back, an...
I’m not bushwhacking. Promise we’ll stay strictly on a trail. And we can’t take Hitchcock.”“You won’t have to touch him. We’ll take the Bronco and keep him in back on the way home, and I’ll give him the bath of his life.”“We ought to see it,” Nina said. “I agree.”“Notice how well we work together...
Every Sunday when she called him to talk, she would hold the picture in her hands, remembering the sun of that day, the baked smell of his skin, but she never mentioned it to him. Such intimacy would embarrass him. Their relationship, once so close that he was physically part of her, was now deli...
JACK REPLIED. “You lie, McIntyre,” Paul said, smiling. “Took the camera to the shop yesterday after I called, didn’t you?” “Damn the world’s detectives.” “The light meter always has been a problem.” Paul took a seat at the table. Jack brought him a plate piled with steaming scrambled eggs. They w...
She was fifty-five and sex was pleasurable, but have a heart, baby. Don’t make it so hard to sit down the next day. Right now, she was eating lunch at the restaurant on the gaming floor. Employees of Prize’s got food at a discount, and since casino buffets cost practically nothing, she could have...
This strip that ran along the edge of their property belonged to her, and now a judge had ordered her to stay away from it.Sometime long after midnight her eyes had snapped open in Alice’s guest bedroom, after a dream that had left no images, just an urgency. Urgent! Her chest burned with the mom...