Poindexters

When we were seated, I said, “How are the Poindexters adjusting?”

Haunted Honeymoon Marta Acosta 2010

Wil had woken up nine days after being shrouded, and I hoped I had that much time before the Poindexters returned to this plane of existence.

Haunted Honeymoon Marta Acosta 2010

I went on to discuss scientific developments that science fiction had successfully predicted, and it seemed natural for the Poindexters to stay for dinner.

Haunted Honeymoon Marta Acosta 2010

Fact: you were discovered at the scene, covered in blood, with blood on your mouth, by the bodies of the Poindexters.

Haunted Honeymoon Marta Acosta 2010

“My association with the Poindexters is more important than you, more important than my personal life.”

Haunted Honeymoon Marta Acosta 2010

I put the Poindexters together on one gurney and pushed it out of the chill room.

Haunted Honeymoon Marta Acosta 2010

But the enormity of all my guilty deeds consumed me: leading Wil to his death, killing Average Joe, cheating on Oswald, not doing anything to save the Poindexters, and cheating on Oswald with goddamn Ian Ducharme …

Haunted Honeymoon Marta Acosta 2010

“You seem more interested in me than sorrowful for the deaths of the Poindexters.”

Haunted Honeymoon Marta Acosta 2010

When we entered the empty terra-cotta tiled lobby, Wil said, The shaman said that the Poindexters should stay in the village.

Haunted Honeymoon Marta Acosta 2010

Poindexters penchant for secrecy had resulted in a flat organization, in which the adviser dealt with everyone directly in order to ensure that information was not widely shared among members of the staff.

In the Shadow of the Oval Office Ivo H. Daalder 2009