Last Bender

CHAPTER FORTY-SIX
 
          It was a long while before I put the binoculars down and when I did, the dome disappeared. I figured it had to be the glasses. Just like the radio. A trick.
          I felt like kicking his ass off that hill into the valley below. And then I thought about how badly [...]

CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
          Around the time I’d grown accustomed to the G force he hit the brakes and all the pent up sweat leapt off me onto the windscreen. “C’mon,” he said to his feet. If I had to guess I’d put him in his mid forties, moderate to heavy smoker and drinker. Some people are [...]

CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR
We drove on a mangy highway, through the post-stripmine covering of processed garbage that adheres to the county wherever banks were too cheap to put up a shopping mall. There wasn’t a bird or rat in it. “How come you’re all dressed up?”   I asked. I’d never seen Stitch even in mascara. Now [...]