Spring 2024 - Recrudescence

Itxaro Borda

Chapter 3

The weather had cleared. The city was safe once more.

The Red Handler lit a cigarette and got back into his car. After the divorce, this was his sole source of pleasure. To smoke in his own car, free from that bitch’s constant sniping.8 He turned up his car stereo full-blast. From it came some sort of rumba melody.9 That’s just how it was sometimes.

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