The Return of Death Eric by Sam LLewellyn

Author:Sam LLewellyn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2009-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

At eight o'clock that evening, the sun was sinking toward the round green hills on the horizon, and the Thrashmettle kids were eating a dinner of homemade pies and beans on a picnic table on the village green.

Buddy stopped eating and cocked an ear. "What's that?" he said.

Lou cocked another. "Thunder?" she said.

"Too regular."

"Heartbeat?"

"Too loud."

Buddy noticed that the surface of the milk in his glass was now broken into little ripples by a strange, rhythmic booming noise. All around their feet, earthworms were heaving themselves out of the ground to escape whatever it was that was making their burrows shudder. There was a long, heartrending screech of tires. And around the corner on two wheels drifted the most sophisticated van Buddy had ever seen.

It was a snow-white lowrider with coal-black windows. Its roof sprouted aerials of many designs. The sound of its exhaust pipe was as the mutter of a multitude. The boom of its bass bins was so mighty that the van itself kept vibrating in and out of focus.

Lou and Buddy did not impress easily, but they were impressed now. The van driver heaved on the handbrake. The van did a 180°. The engine shut off and so did the stereo. For a second it sat quiet and blind in its personal dust cloud. Then the driver's door opened and a man got down.

"Running Dave," said Enid out of the side of her mouth.

He was dressed in black from head to foot, with a discreet silver and turquoise bootlace tie. He opened the passenger door and the prettiest cowgirl Lou had ever seen fed her legs into the world.

"Loopabella van Squee," breathed Enid admiringly.

Loopabella van Squee had white doeskin fringes, a short little skirt, and white lizardskin cowboy boots. She batted her rhinestone eyelashes and said, "Why, honey, you're so cute!

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