Front-Page McGuffin & The Greatest Story Never Told by Peter Crowther

Author:Peter Crowther
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: PS Publishing
Published: 2011-03-23T22:20:33+00:00

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It takes Jack Fedogan almost two hours to walk back to The Land at the End of the Working Day. Two hours in which he has re-lived weeks and months and years of memories. When he arrives at the familiar entrance at the corner of 23rd and Fifth, it’s raining hard and Jack is already sniffling.

“Where you been?” Edgar says as Jack clumps down the stairs. “It’s almost midnight!”

“Where’s Front-Page?” asks McCoy Brewer.

“Right now?” says Jack. “Right now I’d say he’s catching up with someone he’s been missing for a long time.”

“Where’d you leave him?” asks Bills Williams.

Jack walks across to the counter and lifts the hatch. “In the park.”

Bills smiles. “And I bet I know where,” he says.

“Coffee anyone?” asks Jack. “It’s been a long—”

Suddenly the lights flicker.

A wind blows down the stairs and swirls around them, a wind so strong that the five of them shield their eyes.

Then, as quickly as it appeared, the wind drops.

The lights return to their full intensity.

And a solitary shimmering figure stands at the foot of the stairs.

“Someone call me?” asks Dawdle O’Rourke.

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