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Hit Me

a Keller Novel
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A sofa in the lobby was worn on the arms, and the wood paneling in one of the elevators needed touching up. None of this bothered Keller, who found the hotel’s faded glory somehow reassuring. What better venue for men of a certain age to…
“I got married,” she told him, “and don’t bother congratulating me, because it didn’t work out.” “That was quick.” “For you, maybe. You weren’t there.” === “It’s not as though I turned into whistle bait, and what would he want with a woman…
Old enough to vote, old enough to drink…and old enough to be killed? Was he being politically incorrect by giving her a pass on the basis of her height? Was he being…well, he wasn’t sure the word existed, but was he being a sizeist? A…
“And now he’s got to live with the guilt.” “Keller,” she said, “everybody’s got to live with something.” === “Kiauchau,” he told Jenny, “was an area of two hundred square miles in southeast China. The Germans grabbed it in 1897, and then…
Phone calls in New Orleans seemed to go on longer than in most places, especially if there was a woman on either end of the line. === Alphabet City had already changed substantially when Keller was last there, its nasty tenements getting…
“Keller, how many times have the cops mailed out announcements to all the mopes with outstanding wants and warrants? ‘You just won a free flat-panel plasma TV! Show up such and such a place, such and such a time, to claim your prize!’…
The man playing Mr. December to her Miss May? Except that sweet young thing’s barely made it into April. Is statutory rape legal in international waters? === The contrast between the two of them, dramatic enough in the dining room, was far…
“There are approximately a third of a million Icelanders,” he said, as softly as he said everything, “and they are all descended from five Viking men and four Irish women. === …the only real pirates in the Caribbean these days were running…
A perfin and precancel collector he’d met at a show had told him about it, how the woman from Homeland Security had glared at his tongs as if they were an AK-47. “Look at this,” she’d said, holding them aloft. “Five, six inches long! Made…
“He had to do a certain amount of travel for his business, and if he had an opportunity for a dalliance, he was free to pursue it. When he was at home he was married, and faithful. When he was miles away, he was a free agent.” === You can…
“Easy money,” she said. “Plus it’s easy to get involved. It’s problem solving, and you get caught up in it, and there’s a good feeling when it works out. Well, there can be a bad feeling, too, but you push that part aside. Except this time…
…huevos rancheros, “I’d call it a Mexican breakfast, but according to Jeb, a Mexican breakfast is a cigarette and a glass of water.” === “What I always used to tell myself,” he said, “was that any job I drew, the guy was dead whether I…
..., guilt is what makes you a Catholic.
why does the State of Texas forbid me to pile new food onto an old plate?
and the heartbreak of community property.