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I reached the corner slowing, and I could feeldown on itself As I rounded the corner, I had to pause I proppedto breathe I had to clear ht I had to lift un to stretch out like taffy, long strands, sticky, hard tooodies in his own private hit parade He’d ative"… vowels dragged out like a phonograph record slohen the power shuts off

Even the voice in ot hollow and reht be crouching but I couldn’t tell anys were orheavy and I wondered if my elboere bent

Batter up, the voice said and I believed, but couldn’t have sworn to the fact, that I was drawing the two-by-four back, elbow crooked asinto night, life into death

Fraker’s voice droned out the song "Acceeennntuate the pooosssitive, eeeellliiiiatiiiive…"

When he ca, the two-by-four aiin its raphs, light against dark, closing down the distance I felt the board connect with a sweet popping sound

It was out of the ball park and I went doith the roar of the crowd in h I reed toa ht the cops What coover I endured after the cocktail of barbiturates I was injected with I woke in a hospital bed, as sick as a dog But even with a pounding head, retching into a kidney-shaped plastic basin, I was glad to be a

Glen spoiledJonah, Rosie, Gus, and Henry, bearing hot cross buns Lila, he said, had written to him from a jail up north, but he didn’t bother to reply Glen never relented in her determination to reject both Derek and Kitty, but I introduced Kitty Wenner to Gus Last I heard, they were dating and Kitty was cleaning up her act Both had gained weight

Dr Fraker is currently out on bail, awaiting trial on charges of atteree hter, but served no tiot back to the office, I typed upa bill for thirty-three hours, plus e; a total I rounded off to an even 1000 The balance of Bobby’s advance I returned to Varden Talbot’s office to be factored into his estate The rest of the report is a personal letter Much of e to Bobby is devoted to the simple fact that Ithe angels, untethered and at peace