Silver Bullets by Douglas Greene et al

Author:Douglas Greene et al. [al., Douglas Greene et]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781936363384
Publisher: Crippen & Landru
Published: 2020-01-03T00:00:00+00:00

The little island was more crowded than Sandra remembered. And a more homogenous green, though even at a distance she could clearly see the long white walls of the fort that stood guard above the little harbor. They’d be within cannon range in a very few minutes. She could make out individual cottages now and, to the left of the fort and more hidden in the trees, the colonnade of the Grand Hotel. Lola Mae asked her to point out the hotel, and she did so, though with a feeling of dread. It was a large establishment, but was it large enough to share with Lola Mae?

To her relief, the other said, “Too expensive for me. I’m staying at the Harborside Bed and Breakfast. But I’d love to be a guest at the Grand Hotel. It’s where they filmed my favorite movie, Somewhere in Time.”

Sandra knew the name, knew she’d seen the film, though at that moment she couldn’t recall the plot. She put it from her mind as they entered the harbor.

The two women parted in a shelter open on one end to the ferry dock and on the other to the island’s main street. The people on that street were still wearing rain jackets, though those with umbrellas carried them furled under their arms. Even so, Sandra was grateful that the hotel’s omnibus—you could hardly call something built of gleaming wood and drawn by a pair horses a shuttle—was covered. By the time it reached the hotel, which, with its many columns and its shingled roof complete with crowning pavilion, looked to Sandra like a racetrack grandstand monstrously grown, the sun had broken through.

Hotel guests were starting out with golf clubs and tennis rackets, people James would have talked up in the hopes of finding a partner and a game. Sandra didn’t even nod hello to those she passed as she and her bag were escorted into the lobby, where the many irregularities of the floor were almost hidden by the plush wine carpet. She intended to explore the island’s history, something she’d been denied on her last stay. And it was an interesting history, sited as Mackinac was at a choke point for Great Lakes shipping and at the center of what had once been a thriving fur industry. There’d been two wartime invasions of the island and one pitched battle. They would be more than enough to fill the two days of her visit.

She unpacked quickly in her small room, strapped on her camera, and headed out. In the lobby, her eye was caught by a framed movie poster, by the name on that poster: Somewhere in Time. She crossed to it. The poster showed a full length drawing—or a photo massaged to look like a drawing—of a young man in contemporary dress. From behind him peeked the face of a beautiful woman, done in a much larger scale. On either side of the poster were framed photographs of the cast taken all around the hotel, making the wall a little shrine to the film.

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