California Bear by Duane Swierczynski EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author:Duane Swierczynski
- Language: English
- Genre: Amateur Sleuth Mysteries
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THE BEAR
The California Bear, a serial torturer-murderer who had eluded justice for
close to four decades, wanted a cookie.
He really shouldn’t. Not with the diabetes and all. And he knew his wife
would kill him if she found out he raided her secret stash. But what was life
without the little indulgences?
The man was seventy-two years old. Back when he was the Bear, he
liked to bind his victims with ligatures found around their homes (extension
cords, shoelaces, medical tubing) and beat them senseless with his meaty
fists. But right now, all this man cared about was pushing aside the row of
grease-flecked cookbooks on the top shelf over the fridge to gain access to
the sweet, carb-laden motherlode: a family-size package of Nutter Butters
— his wife’s favorite.
She thought she was so goddamned clever. But the man could easily
follow her line of thinking. For years she’d nagged him to dust off the top
of the fridge. He never did, because who the hell ever looks up there? So
she hid the Nutter Butters there, behind cookbooks he’d never crack
because — and this is a quote — “the day you boil an egg for yourself is the
day they name me Queen of Mars.”
The California Bear used to delight in mauling his victims’ flesh with
everyday household objects, relishing the terror he imagined this would
invoke years later whenever the survivors would encounter these everyday
objects again. But right now, he was focused on rooting around the fridge
top until he found his prize. His fingers found the wrapping and he heard
the crinkle. Yes. He pulled out the package and peeled open the top. The
peanut-buttery scent was like mainlining his childhood. The man
commanded himself to take just one. Fine, two. No more than four. He was
a man used to keeping his impulses in check.
One of these days…
As he chewed, he toyed with the idea of lacing the remaining Nutter
Butters with rat poison. See how the Queen of Mars would like that. Her
throat seizing as her cow eyes registered all the dust on the fridge top. Dead
little flecks of them. But like all his death fantasies involving his wife of
thirty-four years, this would come to naught. The fun was the fantasy; the
actual doing of the Thing would be counterproductive.
One of these days I’m going to…
Even though he’d eaten five — okay, six — cookies, his hunger
remained. As the Bear, he had gotten away with dozens of horrors spanning
four decades thanks to this highly disciplined restraint. But now the man
was overcome with a great hunger inside him that couldn’t be satisfied by
mere enriched flour and corn syrup solids. He realized that now; he’d been
denying it for way too long.
One of these days I’m going to cut you into little pieces.
The man left the house through the back door and lumbered into his
detached garage. It was well after midnight; he would have the privacy he
craved.
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