Joanne Harris by Jigs & Reels

Author:Jigs & Reels [Jigs & Reels]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-03-07T22:00:00+00:00

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LAST TRAIN TO DOG TOWN

K. thought about that for a moment. Perhaps he should play along and humour them, he thought to himself. Crazy they might be, but there were too many of them to fight his way out, and besides, he’d never been a fighter. With a hand that trembled slightly, he initialled the blank pages, the grubby notebooks. ‘Why me?’ he said at last.

‘Easy,’ said Sidewinder Sam. ‘We want to get out of Dogtown. Sheriffs bleeding us dry here. We gotta get out.’

‘But why would you need me for that?’

Kate looked impatient. ‘Because you’re the only one here who outranks the Sheriff. You wrote him in, and only you can help write him out.’

‘Write him out?’

‘Absolutely. We want an ending. A road home. A happy marriage. Anything. As it stands, all Kate O’Grady ever does is hang around the Golden Wagon, dab blood from the hero’s cut cheekbone and act as a sexual decoy to keep the ruthless, sadistic Sheriff off his trail.’ She shrugged. ‘Call me picky, but that’s not how I envisaged my future.’

‘Oh.’

‘As for the Sheriff, the last thing he wants is an ending. What he wants is to maintain the status quo. He knows there can’t possibly be a happy outcome for the likes of him.’ She turned to the others, still standing around K. with pencils at the ready. ‘Come on, then. What are you waiting for? Sheriff could be here any minute.’

K. shook his head. ‘You can’t really expect me to believe all this. It’s ludicrous.’

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