Lottery Boy by Michael Byrne

Author:Michael Byrne [Byrne, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9781406363876
Publisher: Walker Books
Published: 2015-04-15T16:00:00+00:00

Terry bumped the steaming car right up onto the pavement. The Snapback had pulled the wheelchair out of the front grill but the radiator was losing water and overheating. Pedestrians looked … and then looked away.

“Where is he then?” said Terry. He was sweating from the car chase and bits of him he never got to see were getting very hot because there was no air conditioning in the car.

“He was there,” said the Snapback. “I saw him. He must have gone…”

“You saw him? That’s no good, is it? Where is he now?” And to emphasize the difference between the past and the present, Terry knocked the Snapback’s cap off so that he didn’t have it on now. It made him feel happier and cooled him down, too.

“What you doing! Cut it out! I saw him in the first place, didn’t I? I’m the only one seeing things!”

“Yeah…” sniffed Terry. He let it hang there, his contempt for whatever the Snapback was seeing. He got out of the car, sat on the bonnet and then clambered up onto the roof and put a Terry-sized dent in it.

“Hey! What you doin’! It’s me mum’s car!” said the Snapback as if that might make a difference.

“There’s something been going on over there,” said Terry, sinking further down into the metal roof so that it looked from above as if a giant fist had punched the car. Across the highway he could see a dark patch on the pavement. Maybe blood or something. “What you waiting for then?” he shouted.

The Snapback stayed put and started fidgeting with his mobile. “I want the money for the windscreen and the repairs,” he said.

“You’ll have to want then, won’t ya? Now go take a look.”

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