Excerpt from The Chalk Man (Fiction)
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Willis Williams reading fiction from The Chalk Man this Sunday. Nothing much in particular was going on, which was fine by me. It felt good just to be bored like normal. Mom and Dad seemed a bit more relaxed, too. I was upstairs in my room. Dad seemed a bit more relaxed to sorry I messed up. I was upstairs in my room, reading when the doorbell rang right away like you do. Sometimes I knew something bad had happened. Eddie? Mom asked Upstairs. Mickey and David are here. Coming a bit. Reluctantly, I padded downstairs to the front door. Mom disappeared into the kitchen Metal Mickey and hop Oh stood with their bikes on the doorstep metal. Mickey was red faced and bursting with excitement. Some kid has fallen in the river. Yeah, Capo said. There's an ambulance and police there with tape and all sorts of ****. Wanna come? Look, I'd like to say that at the time I thought their enthusiasm to see some poor dead kid was ghoulish and wrong, but I was 12. Of course. I wanted to look Okay. Come on, then, metal, Mickey said impatiently. I just have to get my bike. Hurry Hubble said. Or there won't be anything left to see. See what? Mom poked her head back out of the kitchen. Nothing, Mom, I said. You see him in a big hurry to see nothing. It's just some cool new stuff in the playground metal. Mickey lied. He was always a good liar. Well, don't be long. I want you back for lunch, Okay? I grabbed my bike and we sped off down the street. Where's fat gaffe? I asked Metal Mickey, who usually called him first. His mom said she sent him to the shops. He said his loss, although, as it turned out, it wasn't. It was a metal Miki's. There was a car. There was a core dorn around part of the river bank and a policeman stopping people getting too close. Grown up, stood in groups. Looking concerned, we stopped our bikes near a small crowd of onlookers. Actually, it was a bit disappointing as well as the condom. The police had put up this big green tent type thing. You couldn't really see anything. Do you think the body is behind that metal? Micky asked capo Shrug. Probably