Down the Road
By Lee BlessingDown the Road is the story of a married couple who make a living writing the biographies of serial killers. Their current project is a ruthless killer named Bill Reach. This scene takes place in the interview room of a maximum security prison. Reach addresses Dan.
REACH
You want to know how it feels? I'll tell you. It feels like... the middle of space. Floating. Alone. Driving late at night on a deserted road. Headed directly into a perfect dark athat somehow gets darker. And the road and woods and sky all roll up together into a huge gateway that's always opening - just opening as you get there. The feeling of the steering wheel and the dashboard is so familiar, so... owned by you. The girl - the victim - is in the seat beside you. And you're more alone than if she wasn't there. You understand?
A lot of guys would try to deny this. But I feel we can be honest here, don't you? That victim owes you her breath. It's not hers anymore - from the time she trusted you. From the time she failed to protect herself. If you don't want her to breathe - if it gets to you at any point - what do you do? You kill her. That's logic.
Then, you get out of the car, and stand there on the road, in the absolute darkness. And you feel a silence, a stillness, that sounds better to you than any human voice you've ever heard. You can't even remember your own voice - or that you ever had one. Then you think about that body, and the clothes still on it, and her bag on the floor of the car, and the things in that bag - and you decide what you want to keep, and what you want to throw away. You open the car door, and you go through that bag, and through those clothes and through that body. And anything you want is yours.
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