Texas Hold'em by Wild Cards Trust

Author:Wild Cards Trust
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates

Dust and the Darkness

Part 2

THE MOMENT WE GOT off the highway in Fort Stockton, she said, “Wait! Turn right here!” I did. It took us between a Motel 6 and some kind of redbrick office building thing. “Stop here!”

I did. “What’s up? You sound like it’s mighty urgent.”

“It is. You seem like a sweet boy. So I am very sorry.”

“For—”

She puked Darkness right in my face.

I tried to weave out of it, but my dang shoulder harness trapped me. It’s amazing how hard it is to keep track of even simple, everyday things when ace-powered blackness suddenly blots out your vision. I’d just tripped the belt release when I heard my door open and felt hot air wash over my left side.

She yanked me out onto the hot asphalt on my back. “Ouch!”

“Sorry. You’ll get your car back, too. Eventually.”

My vision cleared in time to watch the back end of my RAV4 dwindle down the street and hang a sudden left. Without a signal.

“Shoot,” I said, slowly picking myself up. My muscles hurt more than the vertebrae, at least. I rubbed my lower back. “I need to wash Baby something awful.”

Yes, I named my troca after Dr. Tachyon’s spaceship. Yes, I really am a cowboy nerd.

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