Snitch Jacket by Christopher Goffard

Author:Christopher Goffard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Overlook Press
Published: 2011-06-27T16:00:00+00:00

Back in the van he searched under the dashboard until he found a Maxell tape labeled ‘C’s Recital.’ He didn’t say where he got it. Sliding it into the deck, he said, ‘ You wanna hear something beautiful? The chick that did this was fifteen.’

Into the musty air of the cab poured the sound of a single trembling violin. I couldn’t name the piece, nor the notes, nor even the key; I don’t know classical music. But it was a sound like an extinct Andean bird trying to climb the steps of the wind, something alternately plaintive, wistful, and brave. Very beautiful. The music rose and expanded and filled the filthy van. I looked over and Gus had his eyes closed and his chin uptilted like a sleeping Buddha. We just sat there until it was over, the hit-man and I, listening in our separate places. That bird kept going.

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