All That You Love Will Be Carried Away (2)
Alfie drove around the corner and parked with the nose of his Chevrolet pointed at the white expanse of some farmer’s field, swimming deep into the gray of day’s end. At the farthest limit of vision he could see the spark lights of a farm. In there, they would be hunkered down. Out here, the wind blew hard enough to rock the car. Snow skated past, obliterating the farm lights for a few moments.
Alfie was a big man with a florid face and a smoker’s noisy respiration. He was wearing a topcoat, because when you were selling that was what people liked to see. Not a jacket. Storekeepers sold to people wearing jackets and John Deere caps, they didn’t buy from them. The room key lay on the seat beside him. It was attached to a diamond of green plastic. The key was a real key, not a MagCard. On the radio Clint Black was singing “Nothin’ but the Tail Lights.” It was a country song. Lincoln had an FM rocker now, but rock-and-roll music didn’t seem right to Alfie. Not out here, where if you switched over to AM you could still hear angry old men calling down hellfir
He shut off the engine, put the key to 190 in his pocket, and checked to make sure he still had his notebook in there, too. His old pal. “Save Russian Jews,” he said, reminding himself. “Collect valuable prizes.”
He got out of the car and a gust of wind hit him hard, rocking him back on his heels, flapping his pants around his legs, making him laugh a smoker’s surprised rattlebox laugh.
Taken From:Stephen king everything’s eventual
