Chapter 19

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Sun warmed the near empty streets of Bellbird with a sullenness that weighed in the air. Anthony ran a sweaty hand through his sweaty hair. It pained him, really, to finally be taken seriously at the cost of so many lives. The investigators who had descended on Bellbird like a plague of flies were neatly, and concisely, still avoiding the truth, the death of Bellbird. Some blind fools suggested that the disappearance of the entire population was probably due to a slow, and therefore hitherto unnoticed, desertion of the town for better climes, better attractions.

Shove your f*****g hithertos where the sun don’t shine, shithead. Anthony had to bite down on the words to prevent them becoming a permanent stain on his record.

One witless fool had the audacity to suggest alien abduction, albe……