Riding through Katrina with the Red Baron's Ghost by J. Malcolm Garcia

Author:J. Malcolm Garcia
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Published: 2018-07-30T16:00:00+00:00

He took Susan’s hand. She looked at him. He inhaled and said that without her he would need something to fall back on. It wasn’t about the money. It was about managing his life without her. He paused a long time before he asked her to name him her beneficiary.

I can’t imagine her reaction, dying a slow, painful death, as aware as Randy of the wasted years, only more so now that she would have no future with him to put those years deep into the past. And here Randy sat asking her to take care of him beyond the grave. No, I can’t imagine. But I do understand why she told him in a rising voice to leave her house. Now. Go now, Randy. That’s all you have to say? How dare you! Get out!

He left for San Francisco that night.

The next morning Randy called me, sounding out of breath and panicked. He asked me to meet him at Geary Boulevard and Leavenworth Street. When I got there, I saw him slouched against a bus shelter near a liquor store and a strip joint. Mud smeared on one side of his face and his disheveled clothes. His breath reeked of booze. I stared at him. I had no words.

“Susan makes me so mad,” he said.

Without another word he left, lurching on and off the sidewalk as he made his way south toward Market Street.

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