Key Weird 02; Key Weirder by Robert Tacoma

Author:Robert Tacoma [Tacoma, R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: [2011.12.18]
Publisher: [Côte d’Azur]
Published: 2005-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

∨ Key Weirder ∧

39

Paradise Revisited

Carol and Jeremy got into Key West International about an hour after the Governor had called another press conference. This time it was held in Key West with the mayor and city council, where they went over the program of events planned for the next few days, culminating in the benefit concert for the new monument. Governor Walker proudly announced that he had just returned from a personal meeting with Marty the Manatee, and that Marty would be headlining the concert.

Luckily Carol had reservations at the Hilton, because within minutes of the press conference every room in Key West was booked. Carol had neglected to make reservations for Jeremy however, so while the head Witchette took a relaxing bath, Jeremy frantically searched Key West for a place to stay.

It came down to either the last room at the Big Pelican Happy Lucky Motel, a ten-foot section of concrete drainage pipe next to the Naval Base, or a cardboard shipping box underneath the Stock Island Bridge. Though the bridge had the better view and the drainage pipe smelled the best, Jeremy went with the Big Pelican because they had cable.

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The plan was to scope out the island, find Sara, and get the Chacmools back. Carol had contacted the PIs before she left LA and had them looking for Sara and the other two Idols as well.

Maybe the agency’s man would come through. She could pick up all three Chacmools in Florida before returning to California and gaining total control over any living thing on the planet. That was the plan anyhow.

By the next morning however, when Carol finally got a cab and went to pick up Jeremy, the off-season sleepiness of Key West was already shattered.

Everywhere people were rushing around getting ready for the first parade of Fantasy Fest coming up that night. The traffic was already bumper to bumper nearly to Key Largo. Bikers, college students, fishermen with boats, tourists in rental cars and RVs, National Guard troops in military vehicles, assorted freaks and oddballs in vans and old buses, and hundreds of delivery trucks crowded the Overseas Highway.

Every business in Key West had put in a rush order for extra everything for the big week. There were two large trucks filled with nothing but body paint and beads for Fantasy Fest. Since these two items made up the entire costume for a number of Fantasy Fest participants, the two trucks were given police escorts through the snarled traffic.

As Carol and Jeremy walked through Old Town, the Duval Street traffic went from its usual busy to completely jammed. Since the streets were filled with gridlocked traffic, the early bikers just thundered down the sidewalks clipping the occasional dog, cat, or tourist.

By ten am, every bar in town was standing room only. The first of the beer riots started outside Sloppy Joe’s when word spread about a shortage of Corona. Soon afterwards, a T-shirt shop was looted to the bare walls and burned when they ran out of Marty the Manatee extra large T-shirts.

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