A Road Painted in Scarlet
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There’s a wooden shack of a store along California Highway 74 that sells a robin’s egg blue T-shirt with the logo: I SURVIVED THE ORTEGA HIGHWAY.
Let me tell you about someone who never earned that shirt.
I didn’t murder the person who never earned that T-shirt. It was an accident. A horrible accident.
I never knew that man. I never saw his face.
I don’t know if he made his mark on the world as a serial killer or a saint.
Maybe he scrounged for his meals in the dumpster behind the local Mickey D’s and sold hype on the side to junkies from Sonora to San Diego. Maybe he ran a family of four as a sitcom-worthy patriarch, a punctual, pleasant human being who’d become the head accountant at Dewey, Cheatem and Howe.
I’ll never know.
Let me tell you what I do know about him. What happened that horrible day.
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‘A Road Painted in Scarlet’ includes preview chapters of the urban fantasy novel by Michael Angel, 'The Detective & The Unicorn'.
Let me tell you about someone who never earned that shirt.
I didn’t murder the person who never earned that T-shirt. It was an accident. A horrible accident.
I never knew that man. I never saw his face.
I don’t know if he made his mark on the world as a serial killer or a saint.
Maybe he scrounged for his meals in the dumpster behind the local Mickey D’s and sold hype on the side to junkies from Sonora to San Diego. Maybe he ran a family of four as a sitcom-worthy patriarch, a punctual, pleasant human being who’d become the head accountant at Dewey, Cheatem and Howe.
I’ll never know.
Let me tell you what I do know about him. What happened that horrible day.
***
‘A Road Painted in Scarlet’ includes preview chapters of the urban fantasy novel by Michael Angel, 'The Detective & The Unicorn'.
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