Born for Trouble by Joe R. Lansdale

Author:Joe R. Lansdale [Lansdale, Joe R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781616963705
Google: WGqbzgEACAAJ
Publisher: Tachyon Publications
Published: 2022-03-21T07:00:00+00:00

Back at the office Brett said, “Frank Parker founded Sad Onions.”

Chance worked with us part-time, and she was there too, her pretty face alight with youth, framed by that lovely hair, dark as the far side of the moon.

She said, “Sad who?”

“It’s a chip company,” Brett said. “They dry out onions into chips, and the chips are in a kind of . . . I don’t know. Droopy shape. Anyway, Frank called them sad onions, because they’re droopy. It’s stupid, but hey, it caught. Company also makes chips made out of other vegetables. Get this, after the onions, their biggest seller is made from a dried turnip.”

“Who eats that crap?” Leonard said.

“I’ve had them,” Brett said, “better than you think. Some of them are salted, some are peppered, and some are straight dehydrated vegetables with no frills. Frank Parker started out an onion grower, over around Noon Day. Soil there is supposed to be great for onions. Makes them sweet. Anyway, he figured out how to dehydrate them and turn them into chips before every other company was doing it, and he got rich. And he got married.”

“Terri,” Leonard said.

“Yep. He was seventy, and she’s twenty-five,” Brett said.

“And a hottie,” I said.

“Watch it, Buster,” Brett said.

Chance snickered. She liked it when I was in trouble.

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