Blood and Ink by Brett Adams

Author:Brett Adams [Adams, Brett]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dweoming Well Books
Published: 2020-12-25T22:00:00+00:00

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In a little lane, close enough to hear the cry of gulls stirred into the air by a storm closing over the Portsmouth harbor, a young man sat at a café table. His gaze played across the street while his fingers fiddled with the remains of a paper sugar sachet. Sitting on the table before him were a half-drunk macchiato and a sleek black laptop. The laptop was shut, but a white light embedded in its edge slowly pulsed.

The man’s thoughts wheeled, a montage of images, sounds, and other sensations. As he watched, an audience to his own freewheeling mind, a smile spread across his face.

“I’ll be damned,” he murmured. “He’s doing it. He’s actually doing it.”

A flicker of motion in the periphery of his vision disturbed his thought. He glanced that way and caught a glimpse of a bald, middle-aged man disappearing down a laneway.

Without a word, the young man retrieved the laptop and stowed it in a messenger bag, and left the café. His coffee remained half-drunk on the table.

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