A short story by Patrick Besset
Translation from French by Steve Doyle
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What a heatwave ! I'm waiting for Lorraine, she's always late coming back from work... Lorraine
is my neighbour, my mistress too.
We've been going out with each other
for several months now. An agreement that is based on habit and
mischievous complicity. I used to work way up north until the shipyards
closed down, one after the other. I had gone on strike... for NOTHING. It wasn't exactly my idea of having a good time but downing beer with
angry colleagues around metal drums with a healthy flame rising from
them was more fun than knocking it back alone at Armand's, an
ex-boilermaker who turned publican. The whole thing had happened so
quickly : no reckless person to carry the baby when the banks had thrown
in the towel and we were on the dole. Seven hundred and thirty-two
condemned men and me. Oh, but I had been smart !
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Over The Top...
A short story by Patrick Besset.
Éditions du Busca.
Ligueur Prize. Prize-winner of the detective short stories competition organized by RTBF, the public broadcasting organization of the French Community of Belgium (1998).
Kindle Edition.
ISBN : 979-10-92471-06-9
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