The Sound of Broken Ribs by Edward Lorn

Author:Edward Lorn [Lorn, Edward]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lornographic Material
Published: 2017-12-18T22:00:00+00:00

PART

TWO

“How long’s it been since the accident?” Gail Haas asked over her second martini. Two in the afternoon and the publicist was already red in the cheeks. The chunky social media guru flipped her platinum-blonde hair out of her face with a snap of her neck. Lei thought Gail was pretty for such an inwardly ugly person. This lady gave not a shit about Lei’s accident, but Lei would play nice all the same. Playing nice sold books, and she was all about selling books.

The two women sat at a glass-topped table with a white umbrella jutting from its middle. Lei drank iced tea and enjoyed the cacophony of Manhattan. The table was located outside, parallel to the restaurant’s storefront, and people shuffled along on their way to parts unknown. One or two stopped to stare and snap photos with their cell phones. A bike messenger rolled by, his tires humming like a swarm of bees. The hustle and bustle of major-city life was the antithesis of her rural roots. It was nice to get away from the peace and quiet of country living and dive headfirst into a little chaos every now and again.

In the past year, Lei had become a bigger deal than she could have ever hoped, or wanted, for that matter. Her face had graced the cover of literary publications and tabloids alike, the former being far more generous with page time than the latter. But that was okay with her. There was no such thing as bad publicity.

Lei smiled. “Two years, five months, one week, and five days.”

Gail’s eyes popped wide and her mouth dropped open in exaggerated shock. “Jesus. You really keeping count like that?” The woman’s valley-girl dialect was both out of place in New York and all around nerve-wrecking. Lei had to remind herself that she had signed up for this.

“Sure. It keeps me focused.”

“All right. We’re going to use that. We’ve already covered your recovery. It’s in all the major journals, and the ones it’s not showcased in will be published soon enough. You’re the new Stephen King, baby. Getting run over’s the best thing that could’ve ever happened to you.” The fact that Gail could say this with such enthusiasm made Lei sick to her stomach.

“I have something for you,” Gail said with a mischievous grin. If Lei didn’t know any better, she would’ve thought the big lady was about to flash her tits. Instead of baring the girls, Gail pulled an advance review copy of Lei’s newest book from her massive Gucci over-the-shoulder purse. “Check out the dedication page.”

Lei flipped to the fourth page in, where she’d put “To Harry. My lighthouse.” in the top center of the page. Under that, written in blue ink, was this:

THE EBONY ONE scared stains into my shorts. You should have big fun with this one.

~Stephen King

“He actually wrote this?”

Gail nodded and smiled, her eyes wide. She looked as if she were being electrocuted. “He did, he did. Isn’t that amazing? When he

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