“Santini. Hoodini. It don’ make no difference to me becuz in La Puente, you don’ need no magician to make your Cadillac disappear. Jess a Slim Jim.”
Opal laughed, cuddling up to her sheriff. She loved a man in uniform. He put a hand on her thigh and she winked at him. Bud Tremore made a face. He was probably jealous, the old coot.
Talk drifted over the tabletop like streams of Opal’s cigarette smoke. Drew and Lucy were always good for conversation, but they had turned about as dull as the floor in the Mule Shoe. They acted like a normal couple around town, never doing anything scandalous that anyone could tell, and always holding hands and kissing.
Trying to keep the conversational attention focused on him, Lloyd exclaimed, “That Jacquie is a piece of work. Seems like just yesterday she got arrested for painting red lipstick on that statue of Judge Harrison down in Boise.”
“I-gad, I remember that,” Clyde mused aloud. “I think it was that Leonard fella who sprung her from the jail. Bail was something like a thousand clams.”
“Four hundred,” Raul said.
Opal chimed in. “She got out on a bond that was five hundred dollars.”
“No, it wasn’t.” Bud adamantly shook his head.
Then a big debate ensued and suddenly everyone was talking over everyone as they all remembered the story a little differently.
It was just another day in Red Duck.
ISBN: 1-55254-632-2
LUCY GETS HER LIFE BACK
Copyright © 2006 by Stef Ann Holm.
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