Me & Death by Richard Scrimger

Author:Richard Scrimger [Scrimger, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-77049-214-1
Publisher: Tundra
Published: 2010-05-26T16:00:00+00:00

I had a visitor that afternoon during the soap opera. Chester was in his bed, and I was in the chair with my feet up. We had the TV angled so we could both see it. We’d been watching Life After Life all week. Chester was really into it.

The knock came near the end of the episode. I turned. A woman in a kerchief and sunglasses stood in the doorway.

“I’m looking for Jim, the young man who was run over,” she said.

“That’s me.”

She hesitated. “I don’t want to interrupt.”

“Come on in, ma’am,” said Chester. “Sit on Jim’s bed there and watch the end of the show with us.”

“Really?”

I lifted my feet off the bed. She took a step forward. “Well, if you’re sure.”

She took off her glasses and sat neatly, her plastic shopping bag in her lap. She watched with a frown on her face, like she was studying the soap opera in film school.

INT. OFFICE BUILDING – NIGHT.

RAVEN WORMCAST (32), a dangerous beauty, is moving through a darkened office with the aid of a flashlight. She is dressed in black turtleneck and jeans. She opens a filing cabinet and flips through the files until she comes to one marked BRICK McCOY.

RAVEN (mutters)

Oh, Brick. You poor, innocent fool!

Now where oh where is that alibi of yours …

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