Death by Facebook by Everett Peacock

Author:Everett Peacock
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Mystery
ISBN: 9781453861936
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2011-03-04T00:00:00+00:00

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Poho was cooing quietly, waking up I suppose. I could now easily penetrate poor Janet's static field and communicate directly with my little boy. My entire being had that tingle I used to remember getting on my scalp when I felt ecstatic. My boy! Poho!

He laughed a little when he felt me there, then seemed to stretch and take a moment to move himself around. So cute! Could my heart get any bigger for him?

Star's return to the car quickly reminded me, though, that Poho was in mortal danger. Quickly, I tried to find Janet again, her lucid mind that I had touched a moment ago. I dove deeply into the static, leaving Poho behind for just a moment. There was nothing. I followed path after path of her thoughts, her emotions, but all I was finding were nightmares and horror.

“Jimmie,” Star was saying softly. Her hands were folded in her lap, her gaze out the window ahead. “I explained everything to them. Everything.” She looked over at Janet, still rocking slightly in her chair, eyes shut tight and moaning. “They said they classify this as a late term abortion.”

Janet continued rocking back and forth, oblivious by the looks of it to what Star was telling her. I had some hope that maybe she would back out of it, or even better that Dr. Zhung would refuse to do the procedure.

My optimistic nature, as I had always suspected, had very little connection with the darker sides of reality.

“They want $5000 before they'll agree to do it,” Star said softly, tears streaming down her cheeks. She watched her own hands shake with nervousness, one borne, no doubt, from the pain and suffering that was occurring. And, I thought, from that which might soon occur.

Janet kept rocking, clutching her stomach now and moaning. Star just watched her, for probably a full minute. Convinced Janet was too out of it to make a decision, she started the Tercel.

That's when Janet reached for and opened her door. I felt a darkness pouring from the car, and her. She stepped out and stood up straight, reached into her back pocket, pulled out a wallet and threw it onto the hood of the car.

Star just stared at it for a moment. Horrified. She wanted nothing to do with this, had hoped for a way out, but saw now that her commitment to another sister was assured.

Janet walked around the front of the car now. Her eyes searching Star's.

Star turned off the engine and reluctantly opened her door. She watched Janet closely as she reached into the wallet.

“Here,” Janet said. “This debit card has $20,000 on it.” She then turned and began a slow march up the dozen or so concrete steps.

My signing bonus for another enlistment! My money for signing up to send bad guys to the other side, and now it was going to be used to send my son there instead.

Star put the debit card back in the wallet and followed her up, leaving tears on every step behind Janet.

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