Shadowbahn by Steve Erickson

Author:Steve Erickson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2017-01-25T13:20:52+00:00

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Jesse has noticed that the man in the wheelchair with the silver hair is watching him. Oh my good lord, thinks Jesse, another Factory-slumming fancyman checking me out, except that when the man’s attention does turn elsewhere it’s to Mare slithering nude across the floor with cat-o’-nine-tails in hand—so maybe the aristocrat’s interests don’t run Jesse’s direction after all, at least not in that manner. Rather the old man, smoking a thin cigar, regards Jesse in the way that Jesse remembers being regarded once before by a young Hamburg exi in black, like someone who knows something from beyond the present moment, as it’s currently defined.

• • •

Gazing over her shoulder, Candy says, “My God, what’s she doing here?”

“That’s a she?” says Jesse. “Man, I don’t hardly know as how I can stand the confusion.”

“Not him,” says Candy, “standing right next to him—isn’t that Valerie? Didn’t Andy excommunicate her, and isn’t it someone’s job to keep her out? Why is she looking at you like that?”

“They both giving me the eye, though I feel something close to certain not for the same reasons—can’t hardly say about the old guy. . . .”

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