Purgatory Chasm: A Mystery by Ulfelder Steve

Author:Ulfelder, Steve [Ulfelder, Steve]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3, epub
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Published: 2011-04-27T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

A hundred minutes later I pulled off my still-wet boots and socks on Charlene’s front landing. I stepped inside, headed for the kitchen, and plopped two Walmart bags on the table.

Staring at me from great room sofas were Charlene, Sophie, and my father. He held a bottle of cream soda, his favorite from way back. Charlene didn’t keep any in the house. Who does? She’d bought it special.

Charlene said, “What on earth happened to you?”

“Greeter at Walmart asked the same thing,” I said. I patted one of the bags and looked at Fred. “Boots, socks, underpants, T-shirts, a button-down, jeans. Wranglers. Junior’s brand. Thought you’d appreciate that.”

He said, “Junior who?”

“Dale Earnhardt Junior.”

“Earnhardt has a kid?”

Oh boy.

Sophie giggled. She knows her NASCAR. Charlene shushed her. Fred looked lost.

But as I headed upstairs to shower he perked up and started telling the gals about the time he raced against Dale Earnhardt’s father, Ralph. I was pretty sure the story was bullshit. He’d been telling it since I was a kid, and the details changed every time. Let him tell it often enough, he’d have himself winning the Daytona 500 with a last-lap pass.

I smiled as I thought it, squelching upstairs to the shower.

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