The Bureau of Dreams to be Continued by Edward Drobinski - HTML preview

The Bureau of Dreams to be Continued

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“Tricky guy. I’m kind of confused. What the fuck were we talking about?”

“I don’t know. Fuck it. You were somewhere around the dead body and the back room.”

“Yeah, you know like Jack wanted to hide this dead body without getting famous in the process. He could have taken a shot at dragging it outside and burying it, but he was right near the river. Often people walk or camp there and sometimes you can’t even see them. He concluded that it was safer to keep the body in this spare room he had, which no one else has access to. He planned to wait for a cold night in the dead of winter to do the hauling and excavation, when no one was likely to be there.

For a few weeks things were proceeding nicely, but then one afternoon the same goddam thing happened. Jack wasn’t paying any attention to the two patrons, until he heard the gunshot. Robby O’Brien was holding his sawed off, and standing over the sprawled body of Nate Page; Nate’s head now pretty much all over the place. Jack knew that he should have been much more diligent in his surveillance as everyone knew that Robby’s sister, Lazy Susan, had taken up with Nate. Even though it was an on and off thing that was no new news, Robby being as white and Irish as Henry McKenna’s Pureblend, he should have been paying some