They drove past a hospital and Soft Prophet reminded Howard that long ago one of their mutual friends had once OD’d on heroin and been dumped at its doorstep. The man in question, Howard’s ex roommate, a former cat burglar and heroin dealer who collected paperbacks named Clyde, had been bagged as a corpse, then brought back alive by the urgent plea of his attending nurse, who happened to be a friend. “And now I remember him telling me that. I had forgotten.” “But do you believe that story?” asked Soft Prophet. “I believed it at the time.”
Posted on: Sun, 04 Aug 2013 01:10:54 +0000
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015