The White Magic Five and Dime by Hockensmith Steve

Author:Hockensmith, Steve [Hockensmith, Steve]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Mystery, Magic, soft-boiled, mystery novel, new age, tarot, alanis mclachlan, Mystery Fiction, soft boiled
ISBN: 9780738740225
Publisher: Midnight Ink
Published: 2014-07-08T07:00:00+00:00

A man and a woman face each other, offering what they have to share.

This is a hook-up. Or “the beginning of a be-YOO-tiful friendship,” as Miss Chance put it in her book. According to her, the Two of Cups was all about “partnerships commenced” and “the nurturing of fruitful symbioses.” (For someone who threw in references to Bugs Bunny and Conan the Barbarian, the woman sure could be pretentious.)

I could understand the appeal of the card, especially to someone like Meldon. The poor man had lost his two true loves: his wife and his guns. He was totally alone. What did he have to cling to if not some companionship and a (carefully cultivated) dream of new romance?

Smooth one, Mom. For someone with no soul, you sure knew how to mess with other people’s.

Of course, here I was thinking I was the soulful one—the human one—and I was more alone than my mother had been. After I’d made my escape, she’d picked up a replacement daughter, somehow or other. I don’t know how nurturing or fruitful it had been, but at least she and Clarice did seem to have some kind of symbiosis. Yet if Anthony Grandi suddenly popped in to take me out, nobody would miss me but my boss back at the call center—and that’d be because our sales team probably wouldn’t make its quota for the month. I didn’t even have any pets to leave starving when I didn’t come back. I was a cat lady without the cats.

If I did have a soul, I guess I hadn’t figured out what to do with it yet.

I studied the Two of Cups again. The more I looked at it, the more I thought the man looked kind of cranky.

Maybe he didn’t like what was in his cup. Maybe he was pissed because his gal pal was reaching out to take it. Maybe he’d had a rough childhood.

Yet there he was anyway. Commencing a partnership. Nurturing a symbiosis. Hooking up. Connecting.

If he could do it, so could I.

Maybe.

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