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Let’s fry ourselves in oil together.
The words came from a man sitting on a rusted folding chair outside a condemned auto shop on the edge of Bakersfield, his boots caked in dried mud, his fingers stained with motor grease and something darker. His name was Elias, though no one had called him that in years. To the locals, he was just “the mechanic,” the one who fixed carburetors and kept quiet about the crimson in the back bay.
Kym Mûryer stood a few feet away, hands in his coat pockets, the desert wind tugging at his sleeves. He hadn’t come looking for another of the five. He’d come because of a postcard—no return address, just a smudged photo of a gas station and two words scrawled in shaky ink: He knows.
Now he knew who he was.
Elias looked up, squinting against the sun. “You’re Kym.”
“I am.”
“You look… softer.”
Kym didn’t answer. He’d left the cliff house three weeks ago. Since then, he’d slept in bus stations, eaten at diners where the coffee tasted like burnt wire, and walked through towns where no one knew his name. He’d thought he was running from the past. But maybe he’d been walking toward this.
Elias stood, joints cracking like dry kindling. He gestured to a dented oil drum behind the shop, half-filled with black, viscous fluid. “Used engine oil. Hot enough to blister skin in seconds. I used to think about it—after the third one. Just… climb in. Let it take me.” Read my sci-fi blog: https://pepeperezblogoudepersonne.blogspot.com/
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