In today’s sample from A DEAD GUY AT THE SUMMERHOUSE, Mitch asks advice of his friend Scott Masters.

Mitch Asks Advice

excerpt from A DEAD GUY AT THE SUMMERHOUSE
by Marian Allen

“Something else?” Scott asked.

“See,” I said, after a brief silence, “there’s this tune. Albert’s tune, the maid calls it. I just started to whistle it since I’ve been at Willowbrook. This Albert guy used to whistle it all the time, and now I’m starting, and nobody whistled it or hummed it for me. I just seemed to already know it.”

Scott put on his “expert” face and instructed me to run the tune by him. I was afraid either he wouldn’t recognize it or it would turn out to be something as gross as most everything else about Albert.

I whistled about sixteen bars, and Scott had it.

“Are you sure you want to know?” he asked.

Well, I wasn’t, but I said I was.

He threw back his head for the first note, let it out like the howl of a wolf, then straight-eyed me for the rest.

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A WRITING PROMPT FOR YOU: A character asks for advice but isn’t sure they like it.

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