Wordle by Wordle: Day 160
Saturday, June 8, 2024
Wordle #1085 – HENCE
I settle for ignoring the person at the door and stomping my way to the bathroom.
The sink cabinet is still flung open, gawping at me. I slam it shut, trying to ignore that, too. And the bottle of Jack Daniel’s perched on the corner of the countertop…
I shake myself out of it, strip off my clothes in record time, and jump into the shower before the water has even remotely warmed up.
Ever since the moment I met Palumbo, I swear I could feel his sleazy aura sticking to me like snail slime, hence the urgency to scrub myself clean. That and the fact that I’d been shuffled from dingy room to dingy room for the last day with little more than a squirt of hand sanitizer to freshen up.
But as badly as I want to waste the next three hours on an everything shower, I have more important things to do.
Still dripping, wearing a bathrobe with a towel wrapped around my head, I root through the graveyard of outdated electronics piled in the corner of my closet. Finally, triumphantly, I unearth a cracked but workable iPad and its charging cable.
See? It wasn’t dumb to hang onto all that old stuff. You never know when your usual cell phone and laptop will be confiscated in connection with a murder case, after all.
The iPad may be woefully obsolete, but it’s good enough for me to poke around online.
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