Dana Mentink - Finny's Nose 02 - Fog Over Finny's Nose by Dana Mentink

Author:Dana Mentink [Mentink, Dana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery: Cozy - Humor - California
ISBN: 1597896438
Publisher: Heartsong Presents
Published: 2008-08-31T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

The morning shower was as hot as Ruth could stand it. As she watched the suds swirl around her toes, she could not get the memory of the crumpled balloon out of her mind. It was Wednesday, a scant five days after the balloon accident, and she could still hear the awful thump as the basket hit the ground. She had seen Ed so very much alive a few hours before the launch that she could not reconcile the picture of the congenial bald man with the twisted mass of flesh imbedded in Finny’s Nose.

The food fight the day before did nothing to ease the atmosphere. She didn’t know whether to laugh or cry at the thought of all those grown-ups hurling food at each other like a bunch of preschoolers.

Idly she wondered what the cultured Meg Sooner had made of the whole sticky mess.

Ruth stayed in the shower until the water became tepid, but she still could not focus her mind on anything but the current string of worries. She wished Monk was home, but the catering business demanded plenty of hours. Determined to snap out of her funk, she prepared a cup of near-scalding coffee and sat down at the table with the decrepit journal.

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