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Not a fall as much as a folding, like taking down a tent, returning it to a size that could fit in a sack

I feel the hit … a scalding cut in the flesh above the elbow. … I’ve been shot.

The knife, the point going in just below my ribs … The pain isn’t at all like the burning heat of being shot. Knives are cold. Knives are ice. … I’m pulling it out with both hands, … the ice twice as cold as it exits.

How “for certain” are you?

You’re asking a psychic, Claire. I don’t do “for certain”.

A search for a child is fueled by coffee and terror in equal measures, and they both can be found easily anywhere

If you brought me up here to be smart, you brought the wrong guy.

Where’s your husband?

He might be at church. That’s where he tells me he goes. He may be praying to the Lord Budweiser at McConnell’s Pub, for all I know.

An open bag of bread on the counter, slices tumbling over each other as if in a stampede to get out of the opening …

CARD team: child abduction rapid deployment

Nate Russo is 220 lbs. w/catcher’s mitts for hands.

How do you turn cows into leather gloves?

Not cows. Nowadays it’s either sheep or deer.