Beautiful, Naked & Dead (Moses McGuire) - Plot & Excerpts
Even Angel and Bruiser’s game of battle bots couldn’t make me smile. At noon after three beers and a couple of Tommy burgers that against my better intentions I shared with Angel, I rode down to the county morgue to retrieve my friend. It was hard to believe that all that was Kelly fit in a small plain brown cardboard box. Lowrie had been true to his word, they let me take her ashes without question.Back at the house I poured myself a little more Scottish anti depressant. I set the box on the kitchen table and cranked up U2. Bono was singing again about that girl packing a bag to a place we’d never been, a place that had to be believed to be seen. “Come on Kell, what do you want me to do?” I asked the box, but no answer came. One thing I was sure of, a cardboard box with a county morgue form on the side wasn’t going to cut it. From a cupboard over the sink I found an old cookie jar in the shape of Marilyn Monroe, one of the club girls had given it to me for Christmas a few years back.
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