Dead Man's Trivia by Dax Christopher

Author:Dax Christopher
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-01-24T00:00:00+00:00

More time than I thought-

do it right, but don’t stall

I put my phone back in my pocket and backtracked my way out of the alleys. It was good to be in the street again. It was a mess I had left behind me, but behind me was where it would stay. There were always other places to be. I squinted through the light bouncing off of the obnoxiously reflective surface of King’s Ransom as I hailed a taxi coming around the traffic circle. The sun seemed ungodly bright, but at least it wasn’t overwhelmingly hot. I hopped in and asked the driver to take me to a rendezvous point I had established with a certain someone much earlier in the day, a place where no one would be surprised to see me and at the same time provided plenty of other things for potential interested parties to look at as they considered whose conversations they wanted to eavesdrop on—En’s Den, the local pool hall. My natural look was like camouflage in that place. It sat a good distance away from the heart of the city, which meant a good distance from the pretenders and tourists. You couldn’t even find it on one of the main drags; you had to know where you were going, it wasn’t the kind of place you could just stumble across. The place was well kept, but didn’t bother with the same level of polish and posturing that most of the city seemed so enamored with. It was a real place with real people, and for that the owner deserved a fucking medal.

The driver had the luxury of not having to street park since En’s Den was somewhat off the beaten path and actually had its own parking lot. It was littered with broken glass and busted overhead lights, as any good parking lot should be, and the paint marking the spaces was weathered pretty badly. I told the driver to stay put after we arrived, as I suspected I would be needing his services again shortly. I jumped out of the car and jogged into my favorite haunt. Regrettably, there wasn’t much time to soak up the atmosphere. The place wasn’t crazy busy at the moment, but there were a few hustlers scattered around the room doing what they did. There were fifteen tables in the Den, so even though I counted five different games going the room seemed kind of empty. Not to worry, though; the weekends in there always came in like a lamb and went out like a lion. I saw the building’s owner, En, at his usual perch behind the counter, looking back and forth between the closest game to where he sat and the porno mag laying open on the counter in front of him. They were each being regarded with equal interest. I stopped in my tracks long enough to chide him about it.

“I knew you were a square,” I teased, “but honestly, who reads the articles? They defeat the whole purpose.

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