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{{Byline|last=Schreck|first=Richard|note=This excerpt is from the author’s novel ''Brain Game''.|url=http://prmlr.us/mr13sch}}
 
{{dc|dc=I| was present at the death of a man named Edgar Stein.}}
 
I was driving back to New Orleans, just over the Tennessee-Mississippi line, listening to Bud Powell’s classic jazz piano playing Blue Pearl. My ancient van was holding its own in a tight line of speed-limit traffic when a tractor-trailer up ahead began drifting left and then slid sideways so it blocked both lanes. When it started rolling over, I jerked my hands hard right on the wheel to get myself out of the pile-up. There was no chance. The pickup behind me slammed into my rear bumper and pushed me violently forward into the RV ahead.


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