Geiger Nelson IV (13)A Chapter by Joe
Geiger Nelson IV (13)
The first to die was Lyndsie Marsh. The girl's head was found six feet away from her body still attached by her spinal cord, making her seem the human equivalent to a certain three-lettered candy dispenser. And where do you think they found Miss Lyndsie Marsh? At 4213 Drop St.: Abernathy Gray's front lawn. So was the life of Abernathy Gray. Geiger had been working through the night and already had twenty-seven pages done. Every so often, he would go back to read and edit the pages he had finished and found them to be some of his best work he'd done in a while, much better than that tripe novel Organic Death. That had been a joke of a book, he told everyone, but, truthfully, that had been the one and only piece of work he'd done that was meant only as a cash cow, a bill-payer. The other night, though, was pure Geiger Nelson. He zoomed through those twenty-seven, s**t-free pages. Each page that he wrote seemed to give him the energy to write another, and when had looked at the clock for the first time it had been 6:30 in the morning. It was just like when he'd just been starting out. He used to have so many ideas in his head that he couldn't get them out fast enough and, in college, had to make a special request for a single room, because his dorm-mates would always be annoyed by the click-clacking of typewriter and computer keys. Now there was time for a break. Geiger saved his progress, both on the computer's hard drive and on a flash drive, and stood up. He walked into the kitchen and saw that his supply on Rowdy Rooster was low. He grabbed a Cherry Chug from the fridge and made his way to the front door, preparing to go down to the grocery store in town.
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