Wish List by John Locke

Author:John Locke [Locke, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Mystery & Crime, Humour
ISBN: 9781935670278
Publisher: Telemachus Press, LLC
Published: 2010-11-10T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 25

We’re back in my car, heading home. Having soiled his own clothes, Richie’s wearing the extra underwear and pants I brought. He’s looking out the window again, crying softly.

“Did you do it?” I said.

I slap the back of his head. “Answer me, you son of a bitch!”

I think about the obscene comment and gesture he made about Lissie last Sunday, when all this wish business started. What he’d said, and the way he said it while grabbing his crotch, had pissed Mike off.

Mike.

For a split second I wonder what’s become of our friend. He was the first to fill out the list. I can only hope he’s okay. But I can’t concentrate on Mike right now. The idea of Richie being a child molester is too repulsive to allow me to focus on anything else.

“Tell me the truth, Richie. Did you do something to their little girl? I’ve known you twenty years.”

“Relax, pipsqueak,” Rudy says from the back seat. “He’s never been within ten miles of their little girl.”

“What? Then why—”

“Sally and Tom made a wish that their daughter’s killer would be caught and hung from a tree. Of course, Tom wanted to cut his dick off, as well.”

“I don’t understand.”

“We took the wish and found the guy, but too late. He’d already killed himself, hours earlier. Richie owed us a payment, so we decided to let him step in for the guy.”

“He could’ve been killed!”

“He could’ve been run over by a bus while crossing the street this morning.”

“That’s not the point.”

“Why, you think I can’t get a bus?”

I blink my eyes in horror. “You’re playing with people’s lives!”

“I wouldn’t call it playing.”

“What if that guy had cut off Richie’s dick?”

“Tell you the truth, I thought he would.”

“What the fuck is wrong with you?”

“I were you, I’d dial it down. You don’t hear Richie bitching about it.”

He’s right, I don’t hear Richie bitching about it, and wonder why. In fact, now that I think about it, I don’t recall Richie making a sound until the other goons showed up with Sally and Tom.

“Richie,” I say. “What’s going on here?”

“He’s not much of a talker these days,” Rudy says.

“What have you done to him?”

“We gave him three tasks.”

“But you nearly killed him tonight. Hasn’t he done enough?”

“Normally he’d be done by now. But he refused to honor the second one.”

I drive in silence a few minutes. Then I ask, “What did he refuse to do?”

Rudy pauses a moment. “Normally I wouldn’t say. But now I’m thinking it might be a teaching opportunity. This gets a little tricky, so pay attention. Like I said, we got a wish list from Tom and Sally, to find the man who killed their daughter. The killer was Robby Billups. But we also got a wish list from Robby’s mother, Margot.”

“This is insane!”

“It’s not such a big coincidence. Margot’s first wish was that Robby would get professional help. Her second was that Tracy’s parents would die.”

“Why would you grant a wish like that?”

“Look at it

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