Blood Rubies by Michael McDowell & Dennis Schuetz & Axel Young

Author:Michael McDowell & Dennis Schuetz & Axel Young [McDowell, Michael & Schuetz, Dennis & Young, Axel]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Fiction, Horror, Occult & Supernatural, Thrillers, supernatural
ISBN: 9781943910397
Google: 5hn1jwEACAAJ
Publisher: Valancourt Books
Published: 2016-04-30T00:00:00+00:00

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Andrea wrote out for Jack her address at Wenham and the number of the hall phone in the dormitory. Without comment he thrust the scrap of paper into his back pocket. In return he gave her neither his surname nor his telephone number nor his address. While she was waiting for him downstairs, she surreptitiously jotted down the number of the phone, checked his last name on the mailbox beside the front door, and noted the house number. As they were driving away, she got the name of the street from the sign at the corner.

Andrea waited two weeks for his call. When she dialled the number of the Jamaica Plain house one Wednesday afternoon, she prepared herself with the excuse, in case he was hostile, that she only wanted to purchase some grass from him. Morgie, who had forgotten her, took a message and vowed on the soul of Amber St. Clair that she would deliver it to Jack. By the following Saturday Jack had not called, and Andrea was too piqued by her own foolishness to consider telephoning again.

Marsha had made only cursory inquiries about Andrea’s evening with Jack, and Andrea, in her replies, had not been candid. “Andrea,” said Marsha one evening, as they were crossing from one corner of the campus to the other, “don’t you ever worry about getting into a situation you can’t handle?”

“You mean Jack?”

“Yes.”

Andrea glanced sharply at her friend. The autumn sun had slipped by degrees beneath the horizon and bathed the evening air with luminous gold. “What do you mean: worry? I handled that night just fine.”

“Yes, you come back with two arms and two legs and everything in between right-­side-­up—but you haven’t handled it all right since then. If he were going to call you again, he would have done it by now. But obviously he’s not, so why don’t you just forget about it?”

“I know,” she said softly. “You’re right. I’m being foolish.”

Andrea knew full well she ought to have nothing more to do with Jack, should not even allow herself to want to see him again, but she could not drive him from her mind. She was mystified by him and his relationship to his four housemates. She could not ascribe their being together to deep-­rooted loyalty when their treatment of one another was so openly caustic. She decided it must be a financial arrangement that kept them under the same roof. Whatever the reality of their coexistence, Andrea felt that a certain danger sparked about them—there was something very wrong in Jamaica Plain. Although she had not dared mention it to Marsha, it was that elusive sensation of danger that represented to Andrea what was exactly right about Jack. Through him she had discovered a circle of existence that had always been alien to her, one that fascinated her because it was opposed to all that she had ever known. It took for granted what she considered barbaric and chaotic and—what she had always considered worse—impolite­.

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