Judith Alguire - Rudley 04 - Peril At The Pleasant - Plot & Excerpts
Pritchard’s jewellery store while he sat in his basement apartment staring at the walls. The memory of the subdued sheen of the display window gave him pleasure, if not hope. He had pretty much given up hope. His unemployment insurance cheques were about to run out. The only jobs available were in fast-food establishments and every time he imagined wearing one of those uniforms and working with a bunch of teenagers — worse, waiting on people who were used to seeing him in a suit and tie — he cringed. A counsellor had suggested he might go back to school to brush up on his skills. He didn’t have the energy for that. Then something happened one night that drove him out of his funk. He’d sat in his apartment terrified while the couple upstairs fought. They were new to the building, a whip-thin woman and a stringy punk with a perpetual scowl. They had a baby and a girl about five. The fight — about nothing more than a glass of milk the kid spilled — started in the usual way, with raised voices, but it soon escalated, growing louder and more incoherent, with the baby wailing and the little girl screaming.
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