Repo men by Eric Garcia

Author:Eric Garcia [Eric Garcia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: SF
ISBN: 9780061713040
Published: 2010-09-15T07:00:00+00:00

After Beth’s divorce papers showed up in mail call, I applied for a forty-eight-hour leave and threw myself into the deepest, blackest bender I could work up. Most of my time was spent badgering the proprietor of the local liquor mart near base to sell me more alcohol, and after a protracted series of arguments, he could tell I wasn’t going to leave him alone, so he up and gave me two pints of tequila, a fifth of scotch, and a case of this odd African beer, just to get me away from the store. Sometime during my stupor I must have run into Antonio, the old Italian who liked my clothes, because when I returned to base, ranting and raving about the whore bitch who’d left me, I wasn’t wearing a stitch. It was nighttime, and the African desert was two degrees Celsius.

Lucky for me, Tig caught me before the higher brass did and sent me into barracks to sleep it off inside a control chair. When I was finally sober enough to manipulate my limbs, Tig placed me on bathroom detail as punishment, which was actually the ideal place for a hangover of Roman proportions, mainly due to the proximity of magical porcelain receptacles. As soon as I’d vomit and clean out one of the toilets, I’d stand and be ready to desecrate the next one over.

All this blubbering over a girl—a prostitute, no less, a whore if we’re calling a spade a spade—may seem like petty nonsense from a man who would, ten years later, feel no remorse at taking a child’s lung implant because his father frittered away the monthly artiforg payment at the dog track, but at the time I was still not much more than a boy who had lost the only woman he thought he could love forever.

It got much worse before it got much better.

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