Double Take (A Dan Wilder Short Story)

By Chris O'Grady

Wilder's in town casing a bank, when he gets pretty busted up by three thugs.

Before he knows it, he's being dragged through an abandoned house and having his mitts stuck all over every surface you can imagine: door frames, light switches, cabinets.

Turns out, the thugs want a fall guy for some job.

But Wilder doesn't take the fall for anybody.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Twit Publishing
• Release date: Mar 12, 2012
• ISBN: 9781938035074

Chris O'Grady

Chris O'Grady lives in North Carolina. He is the author of numerous crime short stories and novels.

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Double Take

A Dan Wilder Short Story

By

Chris O'Grady

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Double Take

Copyright © 2009 by Chris O'Grady

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The following work is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Double Take was originally published in Twit Publishing Presents: Winter/Spring 2011.

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Double Take

by Chris O'Grady

They hit Wilder half a block from the square, three of them at once. They worked it fast, staying close together. Pros, Wilder thought.

He snapped a reflex left against the skull of the one on his right. That one dropped. Wilder swung to face the one trying to jab a gun into his ribs and used an elbow to knock the gun aside. He drove a short hard right up into the man’s middle. Sour breath ooophed into Wilder’s face. He pulled back too far to get away from it, but before he could turn to the one coming up behind him, the back of his head was kissed by a sap. A black universe billowed around him, then he felt nothing.

A jolt tumbled him and started to bring him out of it. The jolt was a car stopping. They dragged him out of the car, up a dirt path onto a wooden porch, and into a house. Lights went on.

Wilder’s eyes weren’t working right. One eye picked up a blurred picture of a room with furniture in it. The other saw the same furniture a couple of feet to the side. He closed his eyes.

Did you have to pick such a big guy, gasped one of the men hauling him. A giggle behind him. Alright, laugh, he said, "but you ain’t