They're Back by Smith Dean Wesley

Author:Smith, Dean Wesley [Smith, Dean Wesley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
Publisher: WMG Publishing
Published: 2016-08-31T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

The Swamp of People’s Lives

We made it through the next nine without finding anyone from our time. Of that I was 100 percent sure. With Patty slowing down even more the moment that Screamer had touched each person, we were all digging into each person’s life.

And there was a lot of it I flat didn’t want to dig into.

One was a child molester that when we went over it with our pens and paper, both Screamer and I made a note to look up to see if he was still alive.

Others had strange sexual habits that were not illegal, but made me look away. Others were buried in loneliness, others still were using gambling as a way to escape one ugly thing or another in their life. Of the nine, not a one of them was a happy person.

I’m not sure if that was a comment on slot players or just the luck of the draw.

As we finished with the third nine and came back to the present, Madge brought us all milkshakes and big baskets of hot fries. The vanilla milkshake tasted wonderful and the fries were perfect.

I didn’t realize how much I needed both.

We again went over each name and it was number twenty-two that had come from today.

Penny Smith was her name. She had been widowed the year before at the age of fifty-four and was using gambling with slots to take her mind off her sorrow of losing the man of her life to cancer. I had no idea what she had done when she discovered she was trapped in the past, and I wasn’t sure I wanted to know.

Screamer said the same thing.

Patty and Sherri said nothing.

Ben seemed to never make a comment on the people whose privacy we were invading.

So we had two after going through twenty-seven people.

We found the next one from this time two groups of nine later. Number forty-two.

She was a widower at thirty-five because her husband had been murdered. Actually, it was clear in her mind that she had murdered him for having an affair on her.

She had gotten all his money, played the grieving widow for a year or so, and then moved to Vegas last year.

“We’ll deal with her after all this is settled,” Screamer said, smiling at me.

I had no doubt he and the police would deal with her just fine. But after seeing the inside of that woman’s evil mind, I wanted to help, or at least watch the police arrest her. She had already been plotting on finding her next rich husband when we stranded her in the past.

Beside me, Patty shuddered. “There is true evil out there, isn’t there?”

I touched her arm and gave her energy to go on.

She smiled at me and said, “Thanks. Not so sure how I got so lucky to find someone like you.”

“Raspberry shampoo,” I said.

Screamer snorted and Patty had the decency to blush.

I had a clear memory of being in lust with Patty right from the first time I saw her.

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