Pour Some Sugar on Me
A late-night service call, a dead local station, and a man who checked the wrong box.
Hidden Tracks is a series of stories inspired by songs that meant something when I was the right age to let them all the way in. Each one takes its title from a song and finds the fiction living inside it. You don’t need to know the songs. But if you do, I hope you feel what I felt in somebody’s basement a long time ago. Someone else understood.
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The call came in just as Joe Clark was thinking maybe he could get back to the yard, stretch out on the mildew-smelling cot in the break room, and steal three hours before the next shift started making noise.
The note on the screen said:
BULK ACCOUNT SERVICE. MAPLE CREST APARTMENTS. BUILDING C. MULTI-UNIT SIGNAL EVENT.
Standard enough.
Then he saw the dispatch note:
CUSTOMER STATES WOMAN INSIDE TELEVISION
