Snippet Sunday – Hard-Boiled/Noir WIP – June 5, 2016

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This week’s snippet picks up where last week’s left off. Marisa and Jake have made their escape from the bar and are on the road to… who knows where? We open with conversation about Jed’s pending incarceration…

“I guess the man was planning to spend his last night free having a quiet drink or six,” I said.

“Until you gave him something else to think about.”

“I gave him something to think about?”

“Which one of us is cavorting around with his ex?”

“Which one of us sat herself right next to me? On an empty beach?”

She muttered at the window and dismissed me with a wave of her hand.

I hit the next curve at eighty-five, using the right shoulder to pass a battle-scarred produce truck. My tires screeched as I pulled back onto the road. The truck driver gave me the horn. I gave her the finger.

“Now I can believe you’re from New York,” said Marisa, smirking and shaking her head. “Where are we going, Jake?”

“My motel,” I replied. “I don’t know any other places here.”

“Good. Not even Jed wants to cross Evangeline.”

The moonlight broke through the cloud cover, painting the road ahead in incandescent blue.

“Not again, anyway,” she said.

 

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