Dale McCullough drove the route every night.
The check was not coming early. It was 2:17 AM on a Tuesday in October. The fog was thick enough to taste—damp and metallic, like licking a battery. Dale pulled into the gas station at exit 89, killed the engine, and listened to the pickup tick as the engine cooled. He counted the ticks. One, two, three, four, five. Five ticks and then nothing. Just like the engine. Just like everything else...
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