The Revenge of Kali-Ra by K. K. Beck

Author:K. K. Beck
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Suspense, FIC022000
ISBN: 089296670X
Publisher: Mysterious Press
Published: 1999-03-01T05:00:00+00:00

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In his second-story bedroom, Duncan Blaine removed the headphones of his portable CD player, through which he had been blasting Mahler, and read over the scene he had just polished, eagerly scrolling through the lines on his laptop. God, it was good! It was the best damn thing he’d written in years. You could cut the sexual tension with a knife, yet it dealt with the ambiguities of sex in an insightful and sensitive way. It would be visually stunning, with an over-the-top operatic look that would work on many levels.

At the same time, it actually managed to be true to the repulsive spirit of that demented old hack, Valerian Ricardo, but with the addition of a humanity and wisdom the old boy had never suspected existed. Blaine thought dreamily that it was almost as if—he quickly pulled himself together and harshly suppressed the thought that something other had taken over and polished the scene in such an extraordinary way. God, he was starting to think like that old bat Lila Ricardo! There were no spirit guides or dead pulp writers doing his job for him. It had been his own skill and imagination that had fashioned that scene, polishing it like a precious jewel in the girdle of a goddess.

Like a precious jewel in the girdle of a goddess? Where the hell did that phrase come from? Maybe the ghost of Valerian Ricardo was trying to take possession of his mind. This material was definitely getting to him. He had to get a grip on himself.

He went to the window, flung it open and lit another cigarette, blowing the smoke out into the night because Nadia had made it very clear that her home was a smoke-free zone. He was now sober enough to know he’d been pretty drunk, but not too drunk to write the best damn scene of his life. Seized by a sudden panic, he turned to the laptop. He had better save his surefire Oscar material, and make a backup disk.

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