Fear of Landing by David Waltner-Toews

Author:David Waltner-Toews [Waltner–Toews, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General
ISBN: 9781615952199
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 2010-01-15T07:00:00+00:00

It seemed to take forever to get to the farm. In a few hours daylight would plunge into night. Waluyo came toward him at the gate, waving his hands in the air. “Too many problems, too many problems,” he exclaimed. “Yesterday morning, General Witono come. Too many dead cows, he say. Then today Mr. George…” He waved in the direction of the back of the pens. George’s truck was parked to one side of the yard. The young cattle were kept in roofed-over concrete pens with feed bunks along one side. The ones that were left seemed sleek and healthy. He walked toward the back, where the bigger cattle were kept. There were several cattle bodies out back, one with her feet straight up, and George bent over her. Ab came up behind him, agitated.

“George! What did I tell you?! No post mortems! Jesus, do you have some sort of death wish? I just saw Soesanto. You won’t believe…” He reached to grab George’s shoulder and when he did so, the body fell back against his legs. There was blood on George’s arms from where they had been inside the cow, and blood on his hair from where it had rested against the incision. There were no autopsy knives visible.

Ab reached down the neck for a jugular pulse. His fingers slipped down into a slit just at the collar-bone. He felt as if his hand were being sucked into the body and held there, against the collar-bone, and he fell into a squatting position. The body was slouched back against him, his hand still in the wound. He couldn’t move. Soesanto. George. Jesus. Not this. A noise near his leg startled him, and he turned to see a brightly coloured snake slither into the water of the canal and swim away, head held straight up out of the water.

He turned to where he had last seen Waluyo. There was no one.

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