The Kill Jar by J. Reuben Appelman

Author:J. Reuben Appelman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gallery Books

I’M IN DETROIT for six weeks. It won’t be enough time to learn what I want, so I start quickly. In the mornings I go to the public library to check their microfilm, looking for relevant news articles from the first of the killings until after Christopher Busch’s death. It’s approximately a two-year span.

I bring in a coffee from the Starbucks that first morning and sit in the viewing room in the dark, scrolling through film. I go month by month, and it takes two hours before I stumble onto a photograph of a gold-colored two-door Mercedes that’d been car bombed.

In the photo, a detective stands in the background, trench-coated to his knees. It’s cold outside. His hands are in his pockets. His face is shriveled. His foot is frozen in the frame, a single black wingtip kissing at shrapnel on the ground, blasted out from the console in a spray of what’d become ashen already by the time of the photo.

Short of a half dozen articles on child molestations by priests, which I send to the printer, nothing else stands out that I hadn’t already seen online in the past two years or received from Cathy. I make a note to get the case report on the car bombing.

I doze in the darkness, and when I open my eyes again, I put my hand on the machine and I can feel it hum, the years passing away from me but in reverse, on hot cellulose and without color.

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