The Big Wheel by Jones Scott Archer

Author:Jones, Scott Archer [Jones, Scott Archer]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Southern Yellow Pine Publishing LLC
Published: 2015-03-11T16:00:00+00:00

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At eleven the next day, Thomas made it back to his apartment. For all the high, there had to be the low. He felt as bad as anything he could ever remember. Twice he stopped on the subway to retch into a trash can, but the dry heaving did nothing. He knew his Chinese feast from the night before lay congealed in his belly, but his throat closed like a vise. By the time he reached his door, he shook like a train platform with an express roaring by. He dropped his keys. When he bent down to pick them up, a black-out swarmed up through his head. He dropped to his knees. His nose, his whole sinus passage sucked in a whiff of something that made him gag. It cleared his head, this smell. Some chemical, some cleaning compound. Shining in the hall light a small puddle, there in front of his kneecaps. Nasty stuff… it bled out from under his door. Dipping a finger into the liquid, he raised it to his nose. It was awful.

He lurched to his feet and wiggled his key into the lock. Opening the door a crack, he surveyed the gap. Near the floor, a thumbtack had been stuck in the doorframe with a thread that led away to the left. He pulled the tack with a gentle dig of his fingernails, dropped the thread, and eased the door open. A crude paper fabrication crouched against the baseboard with some innocuous firework taped to it. Thomas stared down at something he recognized as a firebomb. An igniter waiting for him, and a foyer full of accelerant. If this goes off, what will be left for them to find?

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