Tuesday, 26 June 2018

Like Flushed Prey


        The lights of the little highway town spread with their approach and then scattered like flushed prey as they entered it's limits. Under the filling station sheds, swirling insects clouded the naked bulbs. The stores were closed ; the depot dark.

Edward Anderson
Thieves like Us
1937

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They Live By Night
1948

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