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Danny Yates Must Die

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2018
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Sea horsie.

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Sea …

‘Can you stop singing now, please?’

… horsie.

Sea horsie.

Sea horsie.

Sea horsie.

10 PM.

Sea horsie.

Sea horsie.

Sea horsie.

Sea horsie.

‘Can you stop singing now, please?’

11 PM.

Sea horsie.

Sea horsie.

Sea horsie.

Sea horsie.

‘Can you stop singing now, please?’

Midnight.

Sea horsie.

Sea horsie.

Sea horsie.

Sea horsie.

Danny set about making a string of desperate phone calls.

seven (#ulink_b522fbb9-56eb-5862-ba26-9b5a01ad1bf5)

First thing next morning.

Annette Helstrang awoke, threw back the sheets, sat up, stretched out in a great big, foot-stomping, yawn. Then she watched the floor, puzzled.

Between her bare feet, a pair of legs were protruding from beneath her bed.

‘Lucy?’ Early morning, Danny answered a knock at the Mission door, surprised to find her stood on the doorstep.

She grabbed his arm, almost yanked it from its socket, and dragged him to her psychedelic taxi.

‘How did you find me?’ he asked.

Fingers tapping steering wheel, in time to REM, she said, ‘I asked myself where would the saddest of sad losers end up in this town, chose the Seaman’s Mission and rang the bell. You answered.’

Lucy drove along a tree-shaded road out of town, Danny seated beside her in the pink and purple cab she ran to supplement her student loan. Wedged above the rear view mirror was a rolled up copy of the comic book Daisy the Cow. Daisy would spend each issue’s thirty-seven pages sampling different types of grass to see which tasted best. In the end, she always settled on New Zealand Rye; the message being that the familiar is always the best. Daisy the Cow was the number one comic strip among students. It was an irony thing.

‘So, what’s this about?’ asked Danny

‘I have a King Kong of a surprise for you.’

‘You’ve found something of mine you’ve not stolen?’

‘Don’t get bitter on me, Danny.’

‘Well what do you expect? You take my room, my rats, my grocery box, on top of all the other rotten things you’ve done to me over the years.’

‘You don’t want to know what I have to say?’
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