Re: hey

"Fingerprints,she said. A shift in position caused the stump to come brightly alive, the way a smouldering brand will burst into flame when fanned by a breeze.

Cut to his shoulder, hitting the door. I suppose that I sort of hoped you would read it, you know; otherwise, why would I have left it out? Actually, it would have been better if he hadnt gone as far as he did, because there are always hikers and bird-watchers in the Grider Preserve.
Every word she had spoken, every word he had screamed, the squeal of the axe pulling away from the severed bone, the blood on the wall.

Yet the book had continued to roll in spite of all the terrible things Annie had subjected him to, and he could bitch about how something — his guts, maybe — had run out of him along with the half-pint or so of blood hed lost when she took his thumb, but it was still a goddam good yarn, the best Misery novel by far. And I want to finish it for you.

Police theorized that Pomeroy might actually have been killed near Highway 9 and washed into the Wildlife Preserve during the spring run-off. Once he would have denied such a possibility confidently, and with humor rather than indignation.