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1: The weird place?

2: Yeah, you know, like when you've stayed up way too late, you're not drunk, you're not high, you've not had sex, nothing. Just bone tired from an honest day's work.

1: When was the last time you did an honest day's work?

2: Bear with me.

1: Consider yourself bore, sir.

2: (expectantly...)

1: OK, OK, the weird place, bone tired, flop into bed, and...?

2: You hear them.

1: What?

2: The Night Whispers.

1: You get them too?

2: (conspiratorially) Yes! Those small, innocuous voices, that seem to be in-between channels on a midnight car radio.

1: "Hello, Brad."

2: Huh?

1: "Hello, Brad." That was the first one I heard.

2: But... your name's not Brad.

1: Yes; disquieting, but not threatening, isn't it? Actually, for a time I thought I must be nuts, but I realize now it's just the background noise of the world that you tune in late, when you're tired, just like that radio sta tion from Abilene you can hear on a clear night. There's not a physical, sci entific explanation, but there he is, Johnny Cash at 3:38 am.

2: My great great aunt used to...

1: What did you call her?

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