An excerpt from an in-progress sci-fi detective novel project, which reads:
‘Six hours,’ Vickers shook his head as he threw his overnight backpack into the cramped trunk of Brousse’s Subaru. ‘Suppose I always thought LA was like, the next big city over. Just a little downstate, you know?’
‘It’s both of those things’—Brousse slammed the trunk shut—‘and it’s a six-hour drive.’
‘Bloody hell your country’s big,’ said Vickers. ‘If I drove north for six hours from my old flat, I’d practically be in Scotland. Well, not quite, but the North of England at the very least. Which does feel like another country, let me tell you.’
‘Yes, your country is very fucking tiny, Vickers, have we not already had this discussion?’ said Brousse. ‘Look, ‘it’ll be fine, man. The roads are straight as hell. I’ll drive ’til I get bored or tired or pissed off or whatever, and you can handle the rest. We hit it hard, we’ll be there by sundown.’
‘You don't mind me getting behind the wheel of the ol’ XT again?’
Brousse raised an eyebrow. ‘You drive like an elderly pangolin, I think it’ll be fine.’
‘An elderly … pangolin?’
‘Yeah, a pangolin, a fucking pangolin, man, you never watch a wildlife documentary before? Little aardvark-cockroach looking thing. Notoriously timid creatures, Vickers. Just like your ass.’
‘Ok, yeah I think I—’
‘So this one show about pangolins, it was showing how they’re being hunted for their scales or whatever. Those poor motherfuckers’ souls truly are too gentle for this cruel world.’
‘Seems like it had a real effect on you.’
‘Those little guys, they were getting attacked, you know, by poachers. And all they could think to do was curl up into a fucking ball and let those the assholes snatch ‘em right up off the ground.
‘Yeah that’s tough,’ said Vickers. ‘Evolution didn’t do too much to prepare them for us to come along I guess.’
‘Yep, those dumbasses don’t deserve to survive,’ said Brousse, ‘if that’s all the game they’ve got.
‘Cute though. That all your stuff?’
don't normally post wip excerpts so here's a wip excerpt
(a bit NSFW)
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