All the Bones in Brooks County, Texas by Adam Taylor Barker

Author:Adam Taylor Barker [Taylor Barker, Adam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wildbound
Published: 2023-08-27T16:00:00+00:00

5:09 AM

The mountains were just beginning to glow with morning light when Hondo saw the roadblock on their way into Reynosa. He stopped the cop car nearly two-hundred yards away and Magnolia stopped behind him.

Hondo eyed the flashing police strobes ahead of them. His gut tingled.

He stepped from the vehicle and walked up to the window of his SUV as Magnolia lowered it. “I see ‘em,” she said with a deep sigh. “What do we do?”

“I’ll drive ahead. You pull down there off the road, drive beside me until I tell you to stop. They won’t see you.”

“What about you?”

“Just stop when I tell you to. When you hear gunshots, you drive like hell.”

“I ain’t leavin without you.”

“You will if you have to.”

Hondo softly patted the open window frame of his SUV and returned to the cop car. Through his open window, he motioned for Magnolia to drive the SUV off the highway into the desert.

She did so begrudgingly.

She looked up at him through her window from down below in the desert and he motioned for her to drive with him. They did so, moving at just ten miles per hour until Hondo motioned for her to stop.

She shook her head with wet eyes. He nodded his. Pointed a finger. Stay.

She put the SUV into park and turned off the ignition, watched as he drove ahead upon the elevated highway toward the police blockade now just a football field away.

When the headlights of the police car showed on the darkened desert road, the state police armed themselves with their rifles. They exchanged confused glances as it stood motionless a hundred yards away and, when it began driving slowly in their direction, they aimed their rifles in its direction. As it paused again nearly fifty yards away, they barked through intercom systems for the car to stop. When it began moving again, they gave it one more warning before opening fire.

By the time the police cruiser stopped again, it was riddled with so many holes it was nearly unidentifiable as a police car. Its windows were shattered, headlights and police strobes dismantled, its side-doors and police emblems so pockmarked with holes that it was impossible to read.

In the desert, Magnolia watched the cop car disintegrate under the relentless force of bullets. She felt hollow. She felt her heart tugged like a spider’s web. She felt lost. Even so, she did as Hondo told her. She started the ignition and began driving like hell, headlights off, barreling through a dark desert, fueled by desperation.

Two state police officers neared the obliterated, unrecognizable cop car and searched its interior to find it empty.

“Esta vacio,” an officer said. He turned to his fellow officers and they watched him lift his arms and shrug and, a mere instant later, his leg popped and puffed a plume of red mist from a gunshot.

The officer fell to the ground and another turned his rifle into the darkened desert but the specter of a shadow slipped behind him and placed the hot muzzle of a Glock to his cheek, singeing his skin.

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