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Orson began to sniff out squirrels again

Shapes of fog drifted like lost spirits aravestones

I listened to Sasha run a pair of twenty-second "doughnut" spots--which are not ads for doughnuts but cos that leave a hole for live material in the center She followed these with some way sht up "Japanese Hands" with a silky six-bar talk-over Evidently the Chris Isaak festival had ended

Takingback-to-back tracks, so you’ve got just over five minutes, baby"

"How’d you knoas me?"

"Only a handful of people have this number, and most of them are asleep at this hour Besides, when it coreat intuition The ht flash, le"

"Your nether parts?"

"My fe would be a good start Listen, who else is working tonight?"

"Doogie Sass the board

"Just the two of you there alone?" I worried

"You’re jealous all of a sudden? Hoeet But you don’t have to worry I don’t ie wasn’t parked in a command chair at an audio control panel, he spent s wrapped around a Harley-Davidson He was five feet eleven and weighed three hundred pounds His wealth of untamed blond hair and his naturally wavy beard were so lush and silky that you had to resist the urge to pet him, and the colorful mural that covered virtually every inch of his are Yet Sasha wasn’t entirely joking when she said that she didn’t ie’s standards With the opposite sex, he had more bearish charo, each of the four wo enough to attend the Academy Awards in blue jeans and a flannel shirt, sansstarlet at the cereie Sassman (pick one) has sold his soul to the devil, is the secret ly proportioned genitalia in the history of the planet, or produces sexual pherolad Doogie orking the night, because I had no doubt that he was a lot tougher than any of the other engineers at KBAY

"But I thought there’d be someone besides the two of you," I said

Sasha kneasn’t jealous of Doogie, and now she heard the concern in htened up here since Fort Wyvern closed and we lost themoney on this airshift even with a skeleton staff What’s wrong, Chris?"

"You keep the station doors locked, don’t you?"

"Yeah All us late-night jocks and jockettes are required to watch Play Misty for Me and take it to heart"

"Even though it’ll be after dahen you leave, pro shift walk you out to your Explorer"

"Who’s on the loose--Dracula?"

"Promise me"

"Chris, what the hell--"

"I’ll tell you later Just proht But are you in soht, Sasha Really Don’t worry Just, damn it, promise me"

"I did promise--"

"You didn’t use the word"

"Jesus Okay, okay I pro a great story later, at least as spooky as the ones I used to hear around Girl Scout ca for me at home?"

"Will you wear your old Girl Scout uniform?"

"The only part of it I could duplicate are the kneesocks"

"That’s enough"

"You’re stirred by that picture, huh?"

"Vibrating"

"You’re a bad man, Christopher Snow"

"Yeah, I’m a killer"

"See you in a little while, killer"

We disconnected, and I clipped the cell phone to my belt once more

For a htingale perforone to bed No doubt the wor, but they always conduct their solemn work in a respectful hush