I steer towards town.
“We’re going back to the interstate?” asks Colletta.
“Not yet,” I say. “I have an old score to settle.”
“I don’t like the sound of that,” she says.
“He killed Apollo,” I say.
At the Chuck E Cheese’s I demand to see the manager.
“Roscoe isn’t here yet,” says the amiable assistant manager, whose name tag reads Shaneequa.
“We’ll wait over by the animatronic bear,” I say. We order a breakfast pizza with extra potatoes and calamari. It isn’t half bad, but I could use a beer.
At noon Roscoe walks in. His eyes have not even adjusted to the darkness before I am upon him. I bring the two by four down on his face, and his nose lays over on its side. He screams and crumples up. “That’s for Apollo,” I say.
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Editor’s note: Technically it is her vulva, not her vagina.
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