Apex Magazine Issue 40 by Adam-Troy Castro Elizabeth Bear Katharine E.K. Duckett Peter M. Ball Jennifer Pelland

Author:Adam-Troy Castro, Elizabeth Bear, Katharine E.K. Duckett, Peter M. Ball, Jennifer Pelland
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Apex Publications
Published: 2012-08-31T02:53:59+00:00

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Gene stubbed out his cigarette butt with the toe of his old dress shoe and stared down at its last dying embers on the blacktop.

He should have been a better man. Should have controlled his appetites. Shouldn’t have smoked, shouldn’t have eaten so much, shouldn’t have drunk so much. Then he never would have been put in a position to...

How was he to know that someone else would have to pay his price for him?

Lorainne came out, her hands clutching her purse so tightly that her fingers were practically blue. “Are you coming in? They’re going to close the casket soon.“

“I can’t,“ he whispered.

“She’s your daughter.“

“I can’t look at her that way.“

Lorainne shook her head and muttered, “That should have been you in there.“

No shit.

He pulled out another cigarette, and under Lorainne’s withering stare, lit it and took a long drag.

What did it matter if he smoked now?

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