Strange Magic by Gord Rollo

Author:Gord Rollo
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fiction
Publisher: Dorchester Publishing Co., Inc.
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

BLOATED, DISEASE-RIDDEN ANTS

Wilson made it to the bus stop in record time. As soon as he hung up the phone with Susan, he’d done the mad dash into the bathroom, brushed his teeth while taking a leak, grabbed a fresh T-shirt, and was out the door hitting the streets running in minutes. He’d made it with lots of time to spare. Well, a minute or two to spare, anyway. Just enough time to try and catch his breath.

Woefully out of shape as he was, the run had done Wilson some good. After yesterday’s craziness in the park and then last night’s horrible dream, he needed to clear his head and get his mind off the Heatseeker and all the bad memories associated with that name. Tonight he’d force himself to sit down and make a plan of action about what he intended to do about this madman in town, but for today it had to wait. Susan needed his help and damned if he was going to let her and Amanda down. He’d done enough of that already to last a lifetime.

It would have been much easier for Wilson and Susan if Amanda’s bus picked her up and dropped her off right out front of her house, but unfortunately that wasn’t the case. She and all the other schoolkids on Derby Hill Road had to walk to the bottom of the street where it crossed Lincoln Avenue. It was only two city blocks and hardly more than a stone’s throw away, but Amanda was still far too small to make the journey herself twice a day. She had a few older friends from the neighborhood who walked with her most of the time, but Susan wasn’t ready to trust her on her own yet. Maybe she was being overly protective, but for now that was the way it was.

While Wilson waited, he tried to ignore some of the looks he was getting from the other parents standing at the bus stop, but it wasn’t easy to do. Some would glare at him with disgusted scowls, while others just laughed, jeering at him with big dumb grins plastered on their faces. People loved to kick someone when they were down and although Wilson was used to it by now, it still made his blood boil sometimes. Who the hell were they to judge him? He was only here to pick up his little girl. What the hell was it to them? Like they’d never done anything wrong or stupid in their lives, right? Sure enough, one of the men had to open his trap.

“Wilson, my man,” a fat man in a checkered golf shirt said. Wilson thought his name might have been Ralph, but couldn’t remember. Didn’t matter. “Heard you got yourself a magic act together?”

“Ah…yeah. I’m working on one. Just trying to make a living, ya know?”

“Sure, Wilson. I hear you. I bet you’ll be great!” Fat Ralph, or whoever the hell he was, barely finished his sentence before bursting into laughter.

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