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by
milkfish
Sun Jan 11 2009 at 22:40:21
It was when the second
lightning bolt
struck him that he started to take notice.
It was always the same - halfway through the
third margarita
of the night he started thinking of his mother.
"Oh,
just give me that chainsaw
," Father said, just before
she noticed something
she hadn't seen before.
Her moans
were getting more distinctive now through the
open window
, just when his phone started playing
"Edelweiss."
He stood up suddenly and
gave his skull a hard knock
on the
sill
.
If these are
fresh dinosaur tracks
, she wondered, why does this one have the imprint of a
zipper
down the side?
We all knew
Cletus was going to die
, even though he had been
sleeping
with the
stage manager
.
If this phone
doesn't ring
real soon, she thought, it’s going down the
disposal
too
.
They found the
secret
long after
the fighting had ended, after they had taken most of the dead
slaves
from the hold and thrown them
overboard
, and long after the flagship
sank
beneath the oily surface.
Sssst
, the
iNanny
went, until
she
turned it off.
The two of them were in Ginetta’s waiting to place their orders when he started in on his theory that all
rugs
are
area
rugs. "
And Dhurry is their prophet
," she replied,
automatically
.
"
Florence
! Hurry it up, why don'tya, and get your
radomes
over here before we all
die of thirst
!"
The
lesions
on the
dead man
's arms and
hands
were consistent with
corvid
predation.
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