![]() ![]() Stormy Llewellyn, the girl I loved more than life itself, was one of those who died that day. They say that I saved a lot of people in my hometown. Nineteen months ago, when I was twenty, I should have been riddled with bullets in that big-news shopping-mall shoot-out in Pico Mundo, a desert town in California. ![]() And I am no longer surprised that I am drawn to trouble as reliably as iron to a magnet. From that encounter, the day grew uglier as surely as the sun moved from east to west. 45 pistol and a desire to commit a few murders. Later that morning in early March, when I walked downtown to buy blue jeans and a few pairs of socks, I met a guy who had a. I waited and wondered until dawn crept down the sky and across the bedroom windows. A third set of three rings followed, and then only silence. The vibrations that shivered through my bare chest seemed much too strong to have been produced by such a tiny clapper. I was lying on my back in bed, utterly motionless, yet the bell rang three times again. ![]() BEFORE DAWN, I WOKE IN DARKNESS TO THE RINGING of a tiny bell, the thimble-size bell that I wore on a chain around my neck: three bursts of silvery sound, a brief silence after each. ![]()
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