SHORT STORY of WARD COURIER: "The Hunters"
Under the pen name Mason Winfield (c) 2001
It had started with one of those cards:
TOPAZ, TOPAZ!
9:30 MAY 5, 1995
SANDY SHORE HOTEL
SANDY SHORE, NY
['MUNCHKINS ON THE RAILROAD TRACKS...!']
HOJO
After ten years! For the first half of the 80s this was the way Lang used to get in touch with me, always with one of the cryptic postal cards typed in capitals, announcing a mid-evening meeting weeks off in a pub in some backwoods town I'd I have to get the big state map to locate. Never a return address or signature, but I always knew who was behind it.
I can still see them. "The Lacona Hotel. Lacona, NY. April 12, 1981. Two whiskeys at 8:30." Another went, "The Killbuck Inn. Little Valley, NY. 6:00 September 30, 1983. A two-scotch wait." You ge
