White Nights in Split Town City by Annie DeWitt

Author:Annie DeWitt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tyrant Books
Published: 2016-08-04T04:00:00+00:00

We jimmied the lock to the tool shed where the Starlings kept their floats. Fender dropped his jackknife. It made a dull thud on the concrete.

“Keep a look out,” Fender said.

After that we were in.

The whiskey was under the oilcloth Ray kept over the generator. I reached for the highball glasses off the shelf next to the goggles and dusty mouth tubes.

We filled the glasses half way. Fender was planning on stealing the bottle. He fiddled with the inside of his jacket like he wanted to put something heavy against his lungs.

“Nah,” he said after turning the whiskey around in his hand for a minute. “It wouldn’t be fun that way.”

The first sips burned. A flame leaked down the back of my throat. After a while I started to taste caramel. Maybe it was the color. I opened my lips and tossed back my head.

When our glasses were empty we sat there staring. Fender’s eyes dropped down his cheeks when I looked at them too long.

My head felt heavy for my neck.

“Put it between your knees,” Fender said. He brushed my hair out of my face. I kicked over my glass. It shattered on the concrete. The lights flicked on in the Starlings’ hall. We had the time it would take Ray to bend down under the sink in his stupor to retrieve his Colt.

The first shot went off as we hit the bushes. Ray was aimed high to scare off the coyotes. It was too dark to kill anything from such a distance. Even still, you never knew where he’d point his piece.

“Fuck,” Fender said. “The cops will be all over my place.”

“Ray’s a drunk,” I said. “They’ll probably just think he did it himself. If not, Ruth will blame him.”

“Why would a man steal his own liquor?” Fender said.

“Maybe he forgot where he’d hidden it,” I said.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.