His arms were thick and powerful, ending in rocklike fists.
His heavy shoulders and thick chest tapered to narrow hips. His nose was pinched, leathery, and long, and he wore a short, furry beard, notably redder than his hair.
His strawberry-blond hair was cut tight to his skull. He was a wide man with a sharecropper’s bitter face and small, suspicious gray eyes he had a way of looking at people sideways. Koop was thirty-one years old, but at any distance looked ten or fifteen years older. She was too confident, too lively, moving too quickly she was somebody who knew where she was going. She had a long, graceful neck, her dark hair up in a bun, her high heels rattling on the blacktop. The soft evening air felt like a woman’s fingers, stroking his beard.Īt Lexington and Grand, a woman in a scarlet jacket crossed in front of him. He rolled through the residential streets in his Chevy S-10, radio tuned to Country-Lite, his elbow out the window, a bottle of Pig’s Eye beer between his thighs. The daffodils and tulips were gone, while the petunias spread across their beds like Mennonite quilts. Overhead, above the new green of the elms, nighthawks made their skizzizk cries, their wing-flashes like the silver bars on new first-lieutenants. At eight, the streetlights came on, whole blocks at once, with an audible pop. A gaggle of college girls jogged down the bike path, wearing sweatsuits and training shoes, talking as they ran, their uniformly blond ponytails bouncing behind them.
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