{"id":6021,"date":"2026-01-04T12:35:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T12:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/from-a-buick-king-stephen\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T12:35:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T12:35:19","slug":"from-a-buick-king-stephen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/from-a-buick-king-stephen\/","title":{"rendered":"From a Buick – King, Stephen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Curt Wilcox\u2019s boy came around the barracks a lot the year after his father died, I mean a lot, but nobody ever told him get out the way or asked him what in hail he was doing there again. We understood what he was doing: trying to hold on to the memory of his father. Cops know a lot about the psychology of grief; most of us know more about it than we want to.<\/p>\n

That was Ned Wilcox\u2019s senior year at Statler High. He must have quit off the football team; when it came time for choosing, he picked D Troop instead. Hard to imagine a kid doing that, choosing unpaid choring over all those Friday night games and Saturday night parties, but that\u2019s what he did. I don\u2019t think any of us talked to him about that choice, but we respected him for it. He had decided the time had come to put the games away, that\u2019s all. Grown men are frequently incapable of making such decisions; Ned made his at an age when he still couldn\u2019t buy a legal drink. Or a legal pack of smokes, for that matter. I think his dad would have been proud. Know it, actually.<\/p>\n

Given how much the boy was around, I suppose it was inevitable he\u2019d see what was out in Shed B, and ask someone what it was and what it was doing there. I was the one he was most likely to ask, because I\u2019d been his father\u2019s closest friend. Closest one that was still a Trooper, at least. I think maybe I wanted it to happen. Kill or cure, the oldtimers used to say. Give that curious cat a serious dose of satisfaction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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