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<strong>Jack</strong> <strong>kilborn</strong> <strong>SErial</strong> <strong>blakE</strong> <strong>crouch</strong><br />

mirror. Matt had climbed to his feet, and he hobbled toward<br />

the car.<br />

“hey, no fair!” she yelled and gave the accelerator a little<br />

gas, jerking his feet out from under him. “all right, count of<br />

three. We’ll start small with half a mile!”<br />

She grasped the steering wheel, heart pumping. She’d<br />

done this a half dozen times but never with helmets.<br />

“one! Two! Three!”<br />

She reset the odometer and eased onto the accelerator.<br />

Five, ten, fifteen, twenty miles per hour, and the boys already<br />

beginning to scream. at four-tenths of a mile, she hit forty,<br />

and in the rearview mirror, kenny’s and Matt’s pale and naked<br />

bodies writhed in full-throated agony, both trying to sit up<br />

and grab the rope and failing as they slid across the pavement<br />

on their bare backs, dragged by their cuffed ankles, the chains<br />

throwing gorgeous yellow sparks against the asphalt.<br />

She eased off the gas and pulled over onto the shoulder.<br />

collected the spray bottle from the guitar case, unbuckled,<br />

jumped out, and went to the boys. They lay on their backs,<br />

blood pooling beneath them. kenny must have rolled briefly<br />

onto his right elbow, because it had been sanded down to<br />

bone.<br />

“Please,” Matt croaked. “Please.”<br />

“You don’t know how beautiful you look,” she said, “but<br />

i’m gonna make you even prettier.” She spritzed them with<br />

pure, organic lemon juice, especially their backs, and to the<br />

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