A Silhouette Returns
In early-fifties New Orleans, Cindy-Lou is haunted by a shadow from her past. But this is no ghost, it’s something altogether more fearsome.
Cindy-Lou was blonde and her age hung still in the air, like the sweet scent of cocktails on the New Orleans’ night. Her eyes were crystal-blue and they’d shoot right through men like a pair of whistling bullets. No one ever took Cindy-Lou for being dumb, well, at least not without coming to regret it. Her lips were hypnotic. They were full but not the fullest. Red but not the reddest. And they were always glossy, though...