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2 When Hodges returns to his chair with his small bundle of mail, the fight-show host is saying goodbye and promising his TV Land audience that tomorrow there will be midgets. Whether of the physical or mental variety he does not specify.
Beside the La-Z-Boy there
are two small plastic waste
containers, one for returnable
bottles and cans, the other for
trash. Into the trash goes a
circular from Walmart
promising
ROLLBACK
PRICES; an offer for burial
insurance addressed to OUR
FAVORITE NEIGHBOR; an
announcement that all DVDs
are going to be fifty percent off
for one week only at Discount Electronix; a postcard-sized plea for “your important vote” from a fellow running for a vacancy on the city council. There’s a photograph of the candidate, and to Hodges he looks like Dr. Oberlin, the dentist who terrified him as a child. There’s also a circular from Albertsons supermarket. This Hodges puts aside
(covering up his father’s gun
for the time being) because it’s loaded with coupons. The last thing appears to be an actual letter–a fairly thick one, by the feel–in a businesssized envelope. It is addressed to Det. K. William Hodges (Ret.) at 63 Harper Road. There is no return address. In the upper lefthand corner, where one usually goes, is his second smile-face of the day’s
mail delivery. Only this one’s not the winking Walmart Rollback Smiley but rather the email emoticon of Smiley wearing dark glasses and showing his teeth. This stirs a memory, and not a good one. No, he thinks. No. But he rips the letter open so fast and hard the envelope tears and four typed pages spill
out–not real typing, not typewriter typing, but a computer font that looks like it. Dear Detective Hodges, the heading reads. He reaches out without looking, knocks the Albertsons circular to the floor, fingerwalks across the revolver without even noticing it, and seizes the TV remote. He hits
the kill-switch, shutting up the take-no-prisoners lady judge in mid-scold, and turns his attention to the letter.
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