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208 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 5, 2024
It’s just a little trip across town to check out a fae jewelry store. What can go wrong?”
“Give me your word you’ll come back.”
“You have it. My word, my heart, and my battered soul, for all it is worth.”
“I think Jimmy found a security guard or someone working the night shift.”
“And brutally murdered, then ate them,” Zee said.
“Yeah, probably.” It seemed likely. And it wasn't as though Little Jimmy hadn't mass-murdered before.
“Shit happens.” Zee popped open the glove compartment. “Ooh, Doritos.” He settled down again and munched on old Doritos. “We should do this more often.”
“Do what?” I asked.
“What did that Kenzo guy say? The Scooby gang? A bunch of gays drive around solving crimes. That's us.” He waved a Dorito around, then popped it in his mouth.
“Yeah… except we’re kinda doing the crimes, right now.”
“The Scooby people do that too," Zee said, as though it were obvious. "How else they gonna pay for gas?”
He had a point. “I looked them up. Their van is called the Mystery Machine.”
“Pfft, Love Wagon is better.” Zee stopped chewing. “Oh fuck, wait. Would ours be the Murder Machine?”
“We don’t murder that many people. Do we?”
Zee blinked, eyes widening. “Maybe we’re the opposite of the Scooby gang? Gays who go around doing crimes in their Murder Machine?”
That probably fit us more than the other version. “Accidents happen.”
“Yes they fuckin’ do.”
Welcome to the end of the world at the SOS Hotel.
We hope you enjoy your final resting place.
We were a little bit broken, a little bit lost, but we’d made it this far together. We’d see it to the end, whatever that end looked like.