Dating stories rss feedsAt that, I turned and made a run for it. No spine. He followed in close pursuit. We lashed down the hill together, going at it hell for leather, an Armageddon of noise on the dark still avenue.Deh-not-doh, deh-not-doh, deh-not-doh— his infernal chant was charged with the rhythm and momentum of a runaway train. Something big had come down the line, something huge. I open my eyes and the Little Yellow Hen drives up. “Sure, Deb. Nothing worth anything there but I’ll lock it up until you come.” “Come now, get up,” she finally whispered. “We can’t stay here. Come with me!” “Why,” she said from the back of the car, “didn’t you take Seilerst?tte if you don’t know how to drive?” He opened the passport. Trent listened, slowly chewing.“More like an hour after midnight,” he observed, then spat juice and shook his head. “You’re daft. And desperate. Desperate men have a way of ignoring hard facts. Like the patrols along the bay and the night riders with their dogs.” He stopped, walked up to the commissionaire, and asked him whose car it was. I climbed onto the rock and up to the top of the gate. Falling from there to the cement on the other side was the hardest part. Karinger reached up and I reached down. He helped pull me to the pavement. When I landed, I still held on to him. My feet rang like my hands sometimes did when I hit a ball in a weird place on the club’s face. It stung a bit. It didn’t hurt as bad as I thought it would. “At least let me take Crispin,” he told her, “so we can search-” His words died as she pressed her fingers to his lips, then wrapped her arms around him and laid her head on his shoulder. He opened his mouth to try again but gave up and embraced her tightly. To creep into Harpa Hernandezd?ttir’s den. To rest after eighteen months of conflict. IN GLORIOUS HIBERNATION. Dreaming in my hide both covertly and overtly. I sat in and turned to reach for the handle. A hand held the door rigid. I looked up. Hickey was standing on the kerb. He lets out a single laugh of nostalgia that moves all the air in your lungs up to your throat. This is the most your father has ever said to you without asking a question. Now that your mother is gone, he has become the verbose, explicit man you’d wanted so badly as a boy. Now you have taken on the role he’d played, the man who asks questions, the man whose job it is to listen. Was there something wrong? On a night like tonight, I can hardly remember. “No, he’s not, but even if he were, I couldn’t care less! I forbid you to compromise me! You better keep your mouth shut!” Hei?ur comes to the cash register to pay for a ceramic mug decorated with a picture of a fisherman from Lofoten. He’s wearing a yellow slicker with a long sou’wester hat and holds a huge cod, closely resembling Gunnlaugur Scheving’s portrait of a true Icelandic fisherman. “Your work is most authentic,” Duncan observed as he looked over the papers on the table. “I saw your replica of the Virginia charter.” What sort of bullshit is that? I exclaim, in a tone that’s God-fearing and gruff at once. ‘Ya were a very secretive kid,’ he continued. ‘We never really got to know ya, did we? That’s what the lads said when we heard ya were dead. We couldn’t really miss ya because we never really knew ya even though we’d been in school with ya all them years.’ I know. I’ll deal with it tonight.. |