Like Flies from Afar by Ferrari K

Like Flies from Afar by Ferrari K

Author:Ferrari, K. [Ferrari, K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Canongate Books
Published: 2020-03-26T00:00:00+00:00


PART VII

WILD DOGS

THEY FOUND BULLDOG’S BODY in a house in the William C. Morris neighborhood nine days after his death.

The crack of the shotgun didn’t make them call the police. No one in William Morris calls the cops for a thing like that. The smell, either: a little stench, a rat or two, none of that’s going to faze anyone. In William C., as the residents like to call it, no one calls the cops for anything, truth be told.

But after a week, there was no questioning the fetor emerging from the house, and by the ninth day, the comings and goings of the vermin had gotten to be too much, even for the residents of William C. So someone kicked in the wooden door and then, yes, the cops had to be called.

The shotgun, sawed off to make the job easier, was lying there next to the body. The dirt floor had soaked up most of the blood, leaving an enormous dark blotch that resembled a map of Brazil.

Thanks in part to the rats, but mostly to the sawed-off shotgun with its sixteen-gauge shells, Bulldog’s face had disappeared in a crater of blood, brains, and splintered bones. Still there to identify him were the tattoo on his right shoulder and the scars on his back, mementos from the beatings his father had dealt him in his boyhood, back when they still called him Little Hugo.

On the table lay a note. The people who saw it say that it was spattered with remnants of Bulldog’s face.

I hope you forgive me Mr. Eredia , it supposedly said. I no I faled you but that guy punched like a mule.

Plus I lost my legs , it supposedly went on.

I no I shudn’t have gone with those hookers at Mr. Machi’s the other nite but you no how it goes , the note said, supposedly.

And supposedly he finished by saying, You told me strait out an opportunity like this one u just get once in your life. So Im done.

I hope you forgive me, Mr. Eredia , he repeated.



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