Intimate Victims (20 page)
Authors: Vin Packer
“You spoiled the surprise,” she said, taking the Waring blender's pitcher off its stand “Remember the banana daiquiris we had at Wednesday's Saturday night?”
“Now? At two in the afternoon?”
“They're like a dessert. I made them very thick. But the beer taste will spoil it.”
“When did we start drinking after lunch?”
“We'll have them in those long-stemmed blue champagne glasses,” she said. “Reach above you in the cupboard.”
He reached. He said, “Oh, we started drinking after lunch about a year ago, Archie. That's how we became lushes.”
“I don't care if you have had beer. These will be delicious.”
He handed her the glasses.
“We're going to have twins, darling,” she said.
“What the hell are you talking about?”
“I'm talking about astro-twins. Archie, we got an answer! We've located an astro-twin, right over near Nyack!” “You're kidding! Whose?”
She handed him the pitcher. “Yours. Pour. I'll get the letter.” “Mine?”
“His name is Neal Dana. He was born on May twenty-seventh, 1927, in New York City, at three-thirty
A.M
. Same date, same place, same time. Just different hospitals.”
He stood there with his mouth hanging open, holding the pitcher of banana daiquiris.
“Take the drinks out on the terrace, Arch,” she called after him. “We'll celebrate there.”
It was the first Monday in May.
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Original Copyright © 1962 by Fawcett Publications, Inc.
Copyright Renewal © 1990 by Vin Packer
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This is a work of fiction.
Names, characters, corporations, institutions, organizations, events, or locales in this novel are either the product of the author's imagination or, if real, used fictitiously. The resemblance of any character to actual persons (living or dead) is entirely coincidental.
eISBN 10: 1-4405-3701-1
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