Last Rite by Stephen Penner

Author:Stephen Penner [Penner, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-08-23T22:00:00+00:00

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Subject: One more thing

The non-victim blood was XX. Whoever was in there, it was a woman.

-E

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Maggie snatched up the frame piece and shoved it back into her pocket. There was no time to fix the shower. And no time, or place, to hide either. The door flew open with a slam and Maggie could do nothing but look through the bathroom door and feel her heart sink. It was the same large and unintelligible woman who'd spotted her by the loading dock weeks before.

"Yoo thar!" she bellowed. "Whut are yoo dooin' heer?"

Maggie closed her eyes. Her luck had finally run out.

"I tol' Mary tae cleen up theese rooms. Why isna she in heer a' doin' it?"

Or not. Maggie opened her eyes again, eager to take the opening the woman had just given her.

Then the woman noticed the carnage behind Maggie. "Good laird! Whut a' happened thar then?"

Maggie just shrugged. She knew better that to open her mouth and remind the woman of her accent.

"Did yoo find that then?" the woman asked.

Maggie nodded earnestly. Well, it wasn't really earnest, but she wanted it to look that way.

"Oh, good laird almighty!" The woman threw her hands up in despair. "Those gests will haff some esplainin' tae doo, I dare say." She pointed out into the hallway. "Goo an' get Mary. She needs tae see this afore those folks check oot."

Maggie nodded again and dashed into the hallway. She had no idea who Mary was, even less where she might be. But it didn't matter. She was getting the hell out of there.

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