Resume Speed by Lawrence Block

Author:Lawrence Block [Block, Lawrence]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

His shirt has been torn, with a couple of buttons gone. That could easily be the result of a bar fight, and not necessarily much of a fight at that. A little pushing and shoving, a hand making a fist around the bunched-up fabric of his shirt, tugging enough to rip the fabric and send a button flying.

Scratches on his hands.

He’d looked at them and imagined those hands around a woman’s throat. And her smaller hands, clawing at him, until the strength went out of them.

Not a memory, nothing of the sort. Just his imagination, taking in the evidence, fabricating an explanation for it.

But his hands showed scratches more often than not. He used them at work, he grabbed this and reached for that all day long, and he was ever picking up something too hot or scraping a hand against one thing or another. For all he knew, the scratches on his wrists and the backs of his hands had been there before he went into Kelsey’s, and thus long before he got to Maggie’s Turn. He could walk around with scratches on his hands without ever taking notice of them.

Not until he woke up with jagged holes in his memory, and pure dread for what might have filled them.

But a few scratches didn’t mean his skin was under somebody’s fingernails. And how could he have choked someone to death without raising enough of a stir to register on the Internet?

Was there a way to clear his searches from the computer’s history? He was fairly certain there was, but he couldn’t figure it out, and decided it wasn’t important. He logged out, stood up.

Time to get on with his life.

That afternoon he filled out forms, showed his growing collection of ID, and applied for a Montana driver’s license. The clerk established that he’d had an out-of-state license and said if he could show it, he wouldn’t have to take a road test. He explained that it had expired, and long enough ago that he hadn’t even held on to it. He made an appointment for the road test.

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