The Cards of Unknown Players: Digital Science Fiction Short Story (Ctrl Alt Delight) by Vincent L. Scarsella

Author:Vincent L. Scarsella [Scarsella, Vincent L.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Digital Science Fiction
Published: 2016-01-06T18:30:00+00:00

It was almost four by the time I left The Village Diner and ambled out into the yellow sunlight of that warm, lazy Saturday afternoon. Main Street was mostly deserted both ways, east and west. The local folk must have been home watering lawns, stoking up barbecues, or lazing on hammocks in backyards listening to the buzz of flies and bees and the twang of some country song or a ballgame on their radios.

I decided not to try and find the Gleason house just yet. The waitress had told me the Gleason’s didn’t live too far away, just a short walk west on Main until you started up a hill and came to Elm Street. Turn right, keep going up about a hundred feet or so until you came to Pleasant Avenue. That’s where the Gleasons live, at 92 Pleasant, in a small, nicely kept cape, Jim and Gladys. Jim, a strapping hard-working, honest man, and Gladys, his quietly suffering wife of thirty years.

Instead of barging in unannounced and shocking them with the mysterious card depicting, in full life, a photograph of their tragically lost son, I drove to a quiet, clean motel at the edge of town, the Asheville Inn, near the new Wal-Mart, and checked in.

After filling out the registration card, I told the desk clerk, a gaunt, weary looking fellow, that I was going to take a nap and needed a wake up call about dinner-time. Say, six o’clock.

The clerk nodded glumly. Seemingly, he understood.

“Sure,” he said. “Six o’clock.”

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