Ladies' Night by Jack Ketchum

Author:Jack Ketchum [Jack, Ketchum,]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Horror
Publisher: Crossroad Press

The Call-Up

When the call came through Lederer was in his Brooklyn apartment, lying on his bed. Straddled by his wife Millie.

"Aw, for chrissake," she said.

He reached for the phone and Horgan started talking and Millie stayed put for a while, but then he could feel himself recede inside her like some time-lapse movie of a water-starved plant and she got off him and lit a smoke.

He listened to Horgan, wondering if the guy had gone completely batshit loony on him since he'd left the precinct and then hung up the phone.

"That was the damnedest call I ever heard."

If it was possible for somebody to smile disgustedly then that was what she did.

"What?" she said.

"We've got a citywide mobilization on your hands. Horgan's jabbering about the National Guard. He was his usual articulate self so it's hard to say what the hell's going on. And I was only halfway with him anyway."

Her smile brightened.

"I bet it's that goddamn tanker," he said.

"What tanker?"

"I told you. Over on Riverside. The one with no route sheet and the phony plates. But get this. They've got Lieutenant Anderson and Sergeant Dickenson in the cooler down there."

"Why?”

"That's what I said. Why? So Horgan says, 'they're women, aren't they?' Now what the hell do you make of that?"

He zipped his pants, found his shirt on the chair and put it on. He leaned over and kissed her cheek.

"That was nice," he said.

"While it lasted."

"Next time it'll last."

"Make it soon. I'm not getting any younger, y'know."

He smiled. "You're young enough."

He turned ready to leave and she reached over from the bed and slapped his butt.

"You take care of that for me," she said.

"Sure," he said.

It was love.

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