Heavy Metal by Margo Collins

Author:Margo Collins
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Werewolves
Publisher: Bathory Gate Press
Published: 2019-02-10T22:00:00+00:00

8. MaddieAnne

After the Sunset Limited pulled out of El Paso, I’d slept for hours across New Mexico. It wasn’t a pleasant sleep, like I surely deserved, but it was tortured, filled with dreams of headless zombies, and lunging hairy monsters.

I woke as the sun rose over the deserts of New Mexico, and I’d looked out the windows while most of the other passengers slept and, for the first time since we’d left New Orleans, I was able to simply look out of the window and appreciate the landscape outside the window.

When the train woke, the day was filled with announcements over the PA system. Most of them were from Uncle Roy, the lecherous old man who ran the ala carte dining car, and they set my teeth on edge. If he’d ever studied grammar, it certainly didn’t show.

I passed the time dreaming about how wonderful a hot shower was going to feel, and how much fun I was going to have shopping on Rodeo Drive with Daddy’s American Express Black.

In Lordsburg, New Mexico, we’d had a bit of a break, and I’d traded my blood-stained shoes for a pair of cowboy boots. When in Rome and all that. Just before I boarded the westbound train, there was a man selling used paperbacks, and I bought the five on top of his stack. While I had been sick of reading before, I was now totally invested in a series of books by an author I’d never heard of before I’d opened the first one. Now, I was hooked, reading my way through an alternative universe that existed on the night time streets of Baltimore. There were vampires and werewolves and one bad-ass crew of women keeping them all in check, and for some reason, the books were the most compelling thing I’d read in ages.

They sure beat all the self-help tomes shoved in the bottom of my valise.

We rolled into Yuma a couple of minutes ahead of schedule. Half past eleven at night, and our next stop would be in Palm Springs, California.

Cali-fucking-fornia. Finally. I sighed with relief.

New year, new you, I thought to myself, but I hated the sing-song rhythm of it and decided to can the whole idea of self-improvement until I’d had a couple of bottles wine, a pedicure and some time to think, preferably on high thread count Egyptian cotton sheets.

I checked the train schedule and realized I had enough time to stretch my legs before the train departed again. Grabbing only my purse, I stepped down onto the platform and breathed in the cool night air. Arizona smelled different than New Mexico or Texas had, and I found my shoulders relaxing a bit. There was no station, only a platform. I walked the length of it several times, staring at the blanket of stars above me. Out here, with nothing to impede my view, and hardly any moonlight, the sky was so much bigger than I’d ever realized.

Besides me, there were only a couple of other

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