Last Light 2015 (Novella) by Dean Koontz

Author:Dean Koontz [Koontz, Dean]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Mystery, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Thrillers & Suspense, Thriller & Suspense, Literary Fiction, Fantasy, Suspense, Two Hours or More (65-100 Pages), Fiction, Mystery; Thriller & Suspense
Amazon: B013NIFU64
Goodreads: 26158247
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 2015-09-06T12:00:00+00:00

10

You Don’t Find Life by Fleeing from It

In the pricey coastal towns of Southern California, if the house was near the beach and the real-estate ads referred to it as a cottage, you needed to put ironic quotation marks around the word—“cottage”—for it would cost upward of a couple million dollars and be a cottage only by imitation of that style. The one that Pogo was house-sitting encompassed more than 3,500 square feet, large enough to contain five real cottages within its walls. But it had gingerbread millwork and beadboard wainscoting and selected-mahogany floors and enough quaint details to fill a coffee-table book with photographs to engender seething envy in those who cherished the style.

In the big eat-in kitchen, an old and tattered trade-paperback edition of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road lay on the table beside a mug of coffee.

Bob was on his back, on the floor, with a dog toy, a floppy blue bunny rabbit with squeakers in each foot. He held it between his front paws, chewing on one of its ears, breathing rapidly and squirming with delight. If he had raced to the kitchen to fetch the rabbit and bring it to Makani as a gift, he had become enthralled with it and had forgotten his original intention.

“You spoiled him with a new toy,” she said.

“I want him to love his uncle Pogo.”

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