The Pagan House

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David Flusfeder. The Pagan House

The Pagan House

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Edgar in Creek and Vail, 1995

JEANNETTE AND JEANNOT

The Inheritors

Edgar in Creek and Vail, 2005

Author’s note

Also by David Flusfeder

Copyright

About the Publisher

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DAVID FLUSFEDER

Ian Fleming, Thunderball

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‘I’ll be with her a couple of days. They’re bringing the lunch trays around.’

Edgar turned his head to look at the stewardesses. Edgar liked the stewardesses. In fact, he liked everything about this flight. He liked the metal clasp of the seat-belt, the flaps that opened and closed on the wing, the heavy thrum of the engines, the blue tartan of the carpet, the overhead lockers, especially the one across the aisle that had been poorly secured and had emptied itself after take-off on to the head of a burly man in a business suit. And he liked the food they brought. He inspected it upon arrival partly in appreciation and partly because he knew that otherwise he would stare too much at the shape the stewardess made when she retrieved the meal trays from the lower shelves of her trolley, her legs together, her spine perfectly straight. And the touch on his arm from the back of her skirt when she bent to ask the burly man whether he would prefer chicken or beef ranked as number four in the most erotic moments of Edgar’s life.

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