“Universal Waste,” a new short story by Palmer Holton, is a murder mystery that grapples with who’s responsible for all our trash.
“Where is it?” Levin walked quickly across the damp earth. The landfill’s cacophony was suddenly muted, faraway sounding.The trio circled the perimeter of the great debris clump to see a delicately shaped arm sticking out from the crushing pile near the bottom, dark and rubbery from extreme age. A trickle of blue detergent cascaded down from a laundry bottle buried deep within the mess. It spread in a toxic, syrupy puddle across the deceased’s palm and dripped down farther.
Paul eyed the two expectant men for a moment. “Fine,” he finally sneered, and then pulled out all his pockets in dramatic fashion to show they were barren, apart from a cellphone and several wadded-up dollar bills. “You happy?”Advertisement “Well, just so you know, if anything more toxic than your garden-variety PFAS pops up in the lab work, that would have come from an exporter cutting corners. That’s not us, OK?”Advertisement“Oh.” Levin stood. He took one step, paused, and look over his shoulder. “And what do you mean by“Just that,” Greeley shrugged. “Most of the trash here is from out of state.
“They’re not asking for any special favors,” the chief soothed. “They’d just like to keep things in-house for the time being, see how far we can take our investigation before we start reaching out to others.”The chief leaned closer to the detective. “They’re in the middle of some kind of merger with another company—Capital Waste or Continental Waste or something like that.
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