LUCIEN
I put out the paper, holding it before the lamp in my office. The invisible words illuminating. It read, ‘We have the rat.’
I smiled. Finally something to cheer me up. I locked the office and took a quiet walk down to the garage way outside campus. There my navy blue Chevrolet was waiting for me.
I drove the car out of Graham avenue, past the abandoned docks and further into the outskirts of the City. Once there was a company that tried to establish a mine on a land out there where they thought there was gold. But then they found out that the man who sold the land had duped them so they shut the whole operation down. No one drives that far out anymore. No one except a few who know that an entire world exists beyond the ruins of that old mine.
I swerved the car serpentine, avoid
