Murder in the Mirror

Frets bought his own condominium a week earlier and had since learned a path to the toilet in the middle of the night: three steps to a wall, follow left past the guitar case, go through the door, and five steps to the target.

…………

There were people in the room.

Chapter 1 Mix Tapes and Stuff

How did the Schuyler Mine disappear? 

Mix followed a trail from Avon Place to the brown fields on a map from 1840. A drain tunnel once existed by Arlington Avenue. A road on another map from 1794 showed the spot where his high school would be built a hundred and fifty years later. The new 1986 map from Town Hall didn’t have a marker for any of it.

Chapter 1 Mix Tapes and Stolen Tests

“Stupid pizza. How can a pizza slice be so totally glued to a television screen?” Elaine chipped part of her green-polished nail on globs of gray mushroom mixed with dried sauce on the glass of the television screen. Bits of brown pizza crust blended with yellow cheese stuck to a corner. Grease left an octopus-shaped stain in the center.