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WRITERS' RAVES * FOR * READERS' FAVES *Kate Pilarcik ~ absolutelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12430278736281847787noreply@blogger.comBlogger389125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6243178661707887834.post-27441178015011370842014-08-01T15:49:00.000-04:002014-08-01T15:52:48.793-04:00UNDER CONSTRUCTION ~ OVER DELIGHT<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><i><b>~ Absolutely*Kate</b> who has a hammer</i></span></div>
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<br />Kate Pilarcik ~ absolutelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12430278736281847787noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6243178661707887834.post-56723039586133681632013-10-31T01:39:00.003-04:002013-10-31T01:59:46.688-04:00APPARITION ~ by Absolutely*Kate . . . (scares it up again)<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: right;"><i>circa 2009 -- </i></span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium; text-align: right;">How time flies when writing's fun</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The esteemed author <b>ERIN COLE</b> once murmured, like a warm stage whisper:</i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #555566; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My next featured guest on the <b>13 Days of Horror</b> is a writer with such a unique edge, her prose is a voyage through the magic and mysteries of spirit and psyche — she has muses working for her. Collaborating thirty-three writers for the stellar venture, Harbinger*33, {sailing out of the future}, backed with her own witty, diligent, and talented works, she is a gale storm of splendor and a true comrade to many. <br /><br /><b>It is with great honor to introduce to you my next guest, and kindred spirit, Absolutely*Kate and her story, <i>APPARITION</i>.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">B</span><span style="font-size: large;">ill didn’t have a ghost of a chance</span></b><span style="font-size: large;"> when Mary died suddenly the night following the annual Christmas cookie exchange on Mocking Raven Lane. Bill adored all the merry merits of Mary. Why, that’s why Bill married Mary. Admiration knew no bounds for the passions, pleasures and playful priorities that Mary brought to the blend of their loving life. <i>Oh how Mary loved life! </i></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Mary created and considered, then created some more, and Bill loved Mary’s creations ever more. He cherished her pottery, plantings and photography, her tapestries, timetables, teriyaki and tiramisu. Whenever Mary baked up a storm for any season’s reasons, he played their special song while the oven attuned to 350-bake. Midst brown sugar and sprinkles, almond flavoring and the warm flavor of Mary’s appetizing eyes, Bill slowly undressed his pal and his gal, let fingers linger, sensed thoughts collide, and came into new understandings every way inside. Proud Bill told talented Mary time and time again, “Just like you Mar, perfection is delicious.” </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">On the pre-holiday afternoon of the annual thumbprint cookies bake-a-thon — which the whole neighborhood knew were to die for — Bill’s thumbprints left slow, swooning indentations all along Mary’s supple breasts, pulling her natural lovely nakedness oh so tenderly into his own. Aye, that was the rub that tendered the Bill. The whisper from the big-hearted man into the woman who flexed his vitality, rasped with feeling over the raspberry filling, “Sweet Mar, never change any ingredient. How could it be you if otherwise?”</span></span><br />
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<br /><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">A</span><span style="font-size: large;">s the calendar turned a new year</span></b><span style="font-size: large;"> and turned Bill’s life achingly upside down, the new neighbor Edna showed up with casseroles and condolences. Eager Edna edged into pedal pushers, then short shorts, then a string bikini as spring gardening turned into backyard summer tanning. While cutting the lawn one day, Bill noticed where the grass was greener. Theirs was a spirited howl of a whirlwind relationship from late May to early October, in which Bill bedded and wedded Edna in a thinly veiled ceremony attended by the knowing neighbors of Mocking Raven Lane. The reception was held at one of Bill and Mary’s former favorite haunts, where some said they felt uneasy around easy Edna.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Every night felt so familiar as Bill told Edna how well she filled out Mary’s silks and satins, which he hadn’t the heart to toss into Thursday’s trash or the Goodwill receptacle downtown. He told her she was an apparition to behold. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Halloween night saw Edna half-heartedly backing the buoyant boyhood spirit of Bill at the door, with Reese’s, Butterfingers and Snickers galore. He chuckled past princesses, Transformers, zombies and more, after asking one pirate tyke, “Hey — where’s your buccaneers?”, and the kid jeered back, “Under my buckin’ hat!” To Edna the joke fell flat. Bill reminisced how Mary would’ve giggled on and on about that. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Funny, in all the groups of Trick-or-Treaters, one costumed neighbor mom fringed the sidewalk’s edge more and more. In the midst of the mist of the darkening dusk, he sensed a melancholy her non-smile was putting out. Cheer of prior years hauntingly reminded ~ he just missed Mary. Mentioning the freaky frequency he’d gazed at the gauzy lady, edgy Edna crackled and snapped, “Most likely the vicious vampires are changing their get ups behind the bushes and hitting us up for more than their fair share. Can we shut the porch light out yet?”</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Upstairs in bed, Bill heard Mary’s grace of giggles. His dreams? The radio? Nope ~ he’d remembered waiting until 12:15 when their old favorite radio station played Clapton’s <i>“After Midnight”</i>. A simple play list maneuver, but any purposeful pun set off Mar’s giggles. The allure just took off from there. Nope, the radio was off . . . but the music wasn’t.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Bill didn’t have a ghost of a chance when <i>“Unchained Melody”</i> began to play. Like the wind, her song stayed on his mind, as engulfing passions tend to do. Desire aspires to where intertwined fires flair and flare. Her spirit, or his bewitched, bothered and bewildered thoughts played <i>“Misty”</i> for him next. A chilling sensation just out of reach had his guilty reach go to Edna. Chilling there too; no real surprise. He strained to adjust his eyes towards two small approaching lights. Warm lights like ~</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The first shot that rang out in the dark went straight through Billy Boy’s heart. </b>The following volley sought where Mary wondered if evil Edna even had one. When she’d viewed their vows at the flimsy altar of intentions, her solemn dark of soul vow became to taunt, daunt and haunt the man who done her wrong, the man that should’a known . . . the proof wasn’t in the pudding that fateful night, the secret was always in the sauce, the raspberry sauce.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Three ghosts now aghast circle-swirled the wretched room. Two rookies and a seasoned spirit of soul who knew how to create an entrance, amongst other titillating talents. Take tonight ~ she’d done her tutorial well, bided her time, knew the Halloween power of forging worlds. With the savvy of mentor Marley’s ghost, Mary unchained her refrain dead-on, evenly at Edna’s eerie “Eeek”. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>There were sparks to her aura and she knew how to use them.</b> In solemnity of spirit, she taunted just right, “I saw you through your garbage. That’s where you nonchalantly tossed your vile vial. Since it didn’t make my raspberry butter batter better that afternoon, you were bitter. You tried to take over my perfect life. You set out to become my Bill’s wife. But it takes love to have a perfectly delicious life. Cold souls can’t. <i>Disintegrate Bitch!” </i></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">And with that declaration centering her power, Mary turned on the power of that which was hidden ‘neath her diaphanous spinning swirls ~ the trusty dust-buster that mutilated grime and the remnants of this farcical crime. Marley had showed her the adjustments for <i>molecular karmic ‘vacuumation’</i>. Edna was now an eon of her former self.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>“And YOU!”</b> She turned to Bill, the only lights in the room the flash of eyes he remembered taunting him so well. Despite her dismissive disgust, he was desperate for her tantalizing touch, that sink into sensation of skin against skin . . . errrr . . . apparition against apparition? How the sorcery did they express pent-up passions? Does ghostly charm disarm or alarm?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Mary’s soul though, went solely for harm. “You willingly let another ingredient prevent perfection. By the powers vested in me by the Exalted Spirits of Eternity, your punishment is permanent paralysis of reach and touch and please and ease. A vortex of vulnerability is where you’ll flail. Nothing personal any more Bill, I’m sentencing you to hell.”</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Mary positioned the life-size pottery images she’d conjured into various dead shadows in various darkened windows. The folks on Mocking Raven Lane went about their street sense and left lifeless recluses to themselves. 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<span style="font-family: inherit;">publisher Eddie Vega's <b>Noir Nation 3</b> and <b>Noir Nation 4</b>, </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">our International Crime editions soon out the door</span></div>
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I entered into the array of his fray with my stream of conciousness ~<br /><br /><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">SeaPunk.</span><br /><br />Hope you dig some treasure buried here, </div>
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jetsam, and never the twain shall meet – even when most folks don’t rightly
know bad flotsam from good jetsam when they’re up to wading wet ankles in white
kicky, salty foam brine. There’s knowing which cove on which semi-deserted
beachwalk at which time of tides is ready, willing and able to yield up the
conch catch o’ the day ‘neath the still pinch-your-nose stench o’ the big black
creepy seaweed. Yep, there’s all that and a white soft slow-mo spiral of a seagull’s
feather you catch in the palm of your hand and a scallop shell and the cobalt
glass triangle that caught your eye on the last bendover. That’s the stuff of
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /><br /> Crosscurrents and eddies that ain’t the name of your Uncle Ed’s son Ed, and tyin’ the cleat knot on the line thrown your way and barefooting the well worn pier at the hometown marina with that cool one waitin’ in the rusty red cooler ‘board ship is a simple pleasure high – kinda like the sky this time o’ getting’ ready for evenin’ sail. <i>Blue skies, nuttin’ but blue skies</i>, vast with peachy keen overlay -- and who really gives a flybridge of a damn when a cliché is actually worth embracing the stuff it got swirled out about. Yeah, this be the Life from mains’l to top gallant which is so friggin’ cool to say – but not quite as intensive as the boost your psyche gets when you boom out, “Come Aboarrrrrd!” as hearty response to that pal or bum who wanted to share a hunk o’ your day – any ol’ seafaring way. <br /><br />Yeah man, watch those sandpipers skitter at the edge of the edge of true grit sandy wonder. This be livin’. Kinda full life grab you at every place worth being grabbable that ol’ Satchmo and Popeye sing chanties about.<br /><br />This be seapunk.<br /><br />Wave on, wave on. <br /><br /><br /><i>Kerplunk.</i></span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> The new girl, Evelyn, looked at Shirley who squinted at Doris (who knew nuttin' just comin' outta the chorus). They'd seen Mickey around, were even familiar with the swagger of his saunter, but just weren't up to snuff on how usual his <i>usual</i> was poured out. The guy had a crisp edge none of 'em wanted to see flip over. Somethin'</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> sour must've sloshed the careen of his world. Put it this way - The guy wasn't whistlin' any happy tunes.<br /><br /> Yikes. What to do? What to do?<br /><br /> </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> <span style="color: #990000;">Life is perfect timing.</span> Always is, always will be.</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> Fortunately for the bevy o'beauts behind the bar </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="color: #990000;">AT THE BIJOU</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">, Marjorie and Ruby shimmied in their own swish and saved the day. They knew where that maven mixologist Sugar Mae had hid her book o'tricks. "Peachy keen! Here it is - right next to the whiskey sour mix." </span></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i> You heard me. Many countries ban this DDT ingredient, 'cause the effects, like absinthe, don't really make any hearts grow fonder. Could have something to do with what an insecticide is set up to do. Then again, Mickey's a dangerous old bugger.</i></span></div>
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Kate Pilarcik ~ absolutelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12430278736281847787noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6243178661707887834.post-89238652433383295852012-06-29T12:43:00.000-04:002012-06-29T16:36:07.102-04:00SICK IN THE HEAD ~ David Barber's Debut in "THE SHADOWS OF OUR NOIR"<br />
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<b><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">By David Barber</span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Dad, it’s so late. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Did you forget the curfew</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I went down the pub</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I met up with Ruth</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I think we’re in love</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Are you being serious</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">That slag from The Crown</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">That’s fuckin’ hilarious </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">She’s the bike of the town</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">You don’t have a clue</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">You’re so wrong about her</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I’m done talking to you</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">This chat is totally over</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">You could find another</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Not that dirty one </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">You could do a lot better</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Get rid of her, son</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">My ears are sore</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">And your words are dead</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I’m not listening anymore</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I’m going to my bed</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Tomorrow you’re staying here</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">You hear what I said</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">There’s a maniac out there </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Who is sick in the head</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The killer targets females</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">It said so on the news</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">And according to the details</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Takes away their shoes</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">A guy or a chick</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">It doesn’t matter, son</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">If his mind clicks</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">He’ll strike: job done</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Wait, how do you know </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">That the killer’s a he</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The news never said so</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">It could be a she</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Just go to bed, son</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">You’ll be safe up there</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I’m staying down here</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I walk up to my room</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">And close the door</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">My Dad will be sleeping soon</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Of that I’m sure</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I take out the blade</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">From my bedside drawer</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">And walk over to my wardrobe</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Slowly opening the door</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">In there are my prizes</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">On the shelf behind my clothes </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">All styles and sizes</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">In nice neat rows</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Red ones, black ones</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Navy ones, too</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">All expensive leather ones</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The best kind of shoe</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I leave my room</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The knife held in my hand</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">And walk through the gloom </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I enter his bedroom</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">My dad’s still downstairs</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">In a world of dream</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Asleep in his chair</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I walk to his wardrobe</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">And open the door</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Moving aside a bathrobe </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">And assess the score</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I count up the shoes</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">My dad is one pair ahead</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">It obviously proves</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">We’re BOTH sick in the head</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><span style="color: #0b5394;">Another original DEBUT ~ </span><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">AT THE BIJOU</span></b></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>for ~ <b>"The Shadows of Our NOIR"</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">You are a prince 'mongst mere mortals -- You've let ME pub this FIRST! What a gem - and what a beginning to beguine a whole slew of variant scenes . . . You've a separate book in the making when each stanza-laden delight strings together what you said your head did not know from where words hailed . . . Hmm, one wonders what could take over a madman so wise?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is bountifully brill, but you felt that flow from the first to all the cross currents of stream-throughs ~ didn't you? Each stanza evokes both picture and mood and tucks in phrases all just right, just right, just right. Should I effuse any more you'll either get your noggin stuck in doorways or wonder what's in my coffee.<img src="" /> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">DAVID BARBER, "NOIRETRY's" ~ STANZA-MAN ~</b></span></div>
<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Kate,</span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Well, my head is huge now! You're way too kind! Thank you for enjoying my work, Kate. Poetry isn't normally my thing. <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Thanks again for the spotlight. It's great to be back submitting work.</span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"><b>DAVID BARBER<br />MAN WITH PEN</b><br />needing no license<br /><br />He knows how to use it.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">David Barber was born and bred in Manchester, England, but after 39 years of city life decided to up sticks and move to Crieff in Scotland with his wife, Lisa, and their two daughters, Imogen and Melissa. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Having written for a few years when he was younger, fatherhood took hold and, being self employed, earning money suddenly became more important so mindless scribbling had to take a back seat.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It was after a visit back down to Manchester that his childhood friend and fellow writer, Col Bury, invited him to write something for a magazine he was assistant editor of – the award winning magazine Thrillers, Killers ‘n’ Chillers. He rattled off a six sentence story called '<span style="font-style: italic;">Sorry Love'</span> and sent it off. That piece then went off to win a 2nd place Bullet Award. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Since that day his writing has flowed from fingers to keyboard and onto magazines, such as A Twist of Noir, Near To The Knuckle, The New Flesh and Blink Ink. He has also had the honour of having stories published in print and in e-book anthologies, True Brit Grit, Action: Pulse Pounding Tales, Off The Record and The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">He has just ended an 18 month stint as editor of The Flash Fiction Offensive. During that time his eye for detail has vastly improved and the editing side of the industry has helped his own writing enormously.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">He is currently working on a few projects including a novel and an e-book short story collection. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">David Barber can be found lurking at <a href="http://davidjbarber.wordpress.com/">David Barber ~ Writer</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">On </span><b><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/David-Barber/e/B008FXL8BE/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0">Amazon</a></b><span style="font-weight: bold;">, on Twitter at @thetwoblokes and on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/david.barber.16568?ref=tn_tnmn">Facebook</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">"David moved to Scotland only because he's always want to root for the Dunfermline Athletic Football Club and secondly (maybe more importantly) of his (some say unnatural) attraction (and affection) to the famous Scottish Highland Cow. He's a woolly buggar our David is. "</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">~ <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">AT THE BIJOU</span> Author Graham Sensation Smith</b></span> (scroll around -you'll find him)</span></span></div>
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<b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">"Fact:</b><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"> David Barber once considered being a barber so he could have a business card that said “Barber, Barber” and planned to ply his trade in Sing Sing or else Walla Walla.</span></div>
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<b style="color: #222222; font-size: x-large;">"Fiction:</b><span style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"> As a wee lad, David Barber starred in frightening public information films to warn children away from the dangers of the then popular sport of cat wheedling, but was found to be allergic to moggies and summarily fired. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="color: #222222;">~ Author shady lady, Kate Laity</b><span style="color: #222222;">, taking on all the spotlights she can unshadow for an </span><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">AT THE BIJOU</span><span style="color: #222222;"> debut</span></b><span style="color: #222222;"> . . . as summer goes to a month of Julys.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;">"David Barber used to model himself on Sweeney Todd before he was arrested for stealing pork pies."</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><b>~ Good God, it's Author Godwin, Richard Godwin</b> -- yeah, that's him ~ Watch for The Godwin Show of Shows <b>debuting</b> on hot summer nights, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">RG:</span></b> <i>Kate your mischievousness will get you in trouble one day, I am fully prepared for my debut at the bijou, I am having my tux steamed. ~ Richard.</i></span><div style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;">
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #222222;">"David Barber's nickname as a spotty teen was 'Barbs' to some, and he had (still has?) an uncanny resemblance to Depeche Mode's lead singer, David Gahan. Also, our good friend is a Manchester United fan, BUT he was a ball boy for their/his bitter rivals (and my beloved blues) Manchester City back in the 80's, and I was on the front row behind the goal (slightly envious) as he scampered around the sacred grass collecting any stray balls (coughs) for my (his?) heroes. Is he really a closet Man. City fan...? ;-)" </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="color: #222222;">~ Author of true grit, cool COL BURY,</b><span style="color: #222222;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #222222;">likewise making his </span><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">AT THE BIJOU</span><span style="color: #222222;"> Debut</span></b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: -webkit-left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Kate,</span></span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #222222; text-align: -webkit-left;"><b>You're a star. It looks great and has taken me by surprise. I've been a tad busy this past week with my e-book, which is now available on Amazon. Here's the link if you could (by any chance) add to the post." ~ David</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-left;"><b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Kate</span></b><i><span style="color: #222222;"> </span><span style="color: #3d85c6;">(packing yet, packing yet, for 6'am flight to OuterBanks grand seaside all-the-family-in-the-family vacation) --</span><span style="color: #222222;"> </span><b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">"GOTCHA COVERED PAL. But -- YOU are the shining star shootin' off all heights!"</span></b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">and<span style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold;"> Absolutely*Kate's </span><b>"Angel Tough"</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span>MATT HILTON'S<span style="color: #cc0000;"> tumultuous</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;"></span></b><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1370348004" style="font-weight: bold;">ACTION PULSE POUNDING TALES</a><span style="color: #cc0000;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Action-Pulse-Pounding-Volume-ebook/dp/B008082QP6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1340985041&sr=8-1&keywords=action+pulse+pounding+tales" style="font-weight: bold;">,</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"> natch at Amazon, US and UK.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Thanks David </span>for takin' the heat under the spotlights and kleigs ~</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>inviting "Come one, come all!"</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>and the hits?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">the thrill of </span>PAUL BRAZILL</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">shady lady, </span>KATE LAITY</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">{ Psst ~ <b style="background-color: #ffe599;">Click title above</b> ~ <i><span style="color: #cc0000;">Get the palpitating book yet? </span></i>~ You read my tough tale, <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">"ANGEL TOUGH"</span></b>? ~ <i>Whatcha think? </i>~ You read <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Barber's</span></b> & <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Brazill's</span></b> & <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Godwin's</span></b> & <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Laity's</span></b> & <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Smith's</span></b> &<b><span style="color: #cc0000;"> Hilton's</span></b> of course in the course of your heightened awaresness that this book is so hot it *sizzzzzles*? After that, there's <b style="color: #cc0000;">but 30 more </b>in store . . . gonna go twist their elbow for an <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">AT THE BIJOU</span></b> show next. <i>You'll see.</i> }</span></div>
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<br />Kate Pilarcik ~ absolutelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12430278736281847787noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6243178661707887834.post-33841711320710408172012-06-17T01:17:00.001-04:002012-06-17T01:37:00.264-04:00Dateline ~ JUNE 17th . . . NO BUSINESS LIKE SHOW BUSINESS<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>The 17th of June ~ </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">In childhood days, Mom's mastery with aqua icing put a ripple right smack dab down the middle of our cake. Chocolate cake, buttercream white, piles of happy lovin' laughin' ~ sharing day and life with my hero, my Dad ~ THE ultimate delight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Kate Pilarcik ~ absolutelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12430278736281847787noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6243178661707887834.post-59970640425807458692012-06-14T20:31:00.000-04:002012-06-14T20:34:49.563-04:00Proudly Presenting ~ "NOVEMBER, 1955" by Leon Jackson Davenport . . . back AT THE BIJOU for "THE SHADOWS OF OUR NOIR"<br />
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Jackson Davenport<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihqZg_uH_1rxMhKprS3D7nKQi73I5safvBVJxIY5SYt_hxsPHDrpEeQwnrw3JB-ZG7MjL1oBF-wQSa-Eso-AsY9-OnchWzchHPQVzmi829NMryxl3BcJccbN8tdHNvWohrAAXp10vLk6E/s1600/brown+eyes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihqZg_uH_1rxMhKprS3D7nKQi73I5safvBVJxIY5SYt_hxsPHDrpEeQwnrw3JB-ZG7MjL1oBF-wQSa-Eso-AsY9-OnchWzchHPQVzmi829NMryxl3BcJccbN8tdHNvWohrAAXp10vLk6E/s1600/brown+eyes.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">S</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">he was beautiful. Tall and
slender with dark-brown eyes, (the kind in which one can lose his soul); her
light skin was perfect, her smile mesmerizing, and her taste in clothes
impeccable. She was the kind of woman, we all dream of attracting, one that will
be the envy of both genders; the women want to be like her, and men need her to
love us.</span><br />
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It was November 1955,</span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"> and I was still basking in the glow of the Dodger’s
victory over the Yankees in the World Series. It was made even sweeter because
the Dodgers did it with so many Negro players: Joe Black, Don Newcombe, Roy
Campanella, Jim Gilliam, Sandy Amoros and the man, Jackie Robinson all played
pivotal parts in helping the beloved team from Brooklyn win.</span><br />
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I was drinking Jack Daniels, in a little bar near my office, which I frequent,
just to be sociable, and to keep up on what’s happening in the neighborhood.
The combination of good reliable information, a quick right hand and a ready
smile usually gets me what I want, I’m not bragging just laying out the facts.</span><br />
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She walked over to me, gliding as every eye in the place watched her.</span><br />
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“Mr. Gunn? Mr. Jacob Gunn?”</span><br />
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“Yeah, I’m Gunn. What can I do for you, Miss, ah?”</span><br />
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“Jones, Amanda Jones.”</span><br />
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“What can I do for you Miss Jones?”</span><br />
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“I’d like to talk to you in private Mr. Gunn. Can we move to that booth over
there in the back?”</span><br />
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“You’re new here aren’t you?” I said smiling. “That booth belongs to Tommy
Brown. He runs the numbers in this neighborhood. Nobody sits in Tommy’s booth,
not even me. Lets go over there,” I say pointing to a booth next to Tommy’s, a
little closer to the back door.</span><br />
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“It is quiet, and we can talk.” She led the way, and every head in the bar
turned to watch.</span><br />
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She told me about her predicament: a former boyfriend was threatening her, and
she was scared. All she wanted was to be left alone, and she asked if could I
pay him a visit and convince him that the best course of action, for him, was
to move on. She made it very plain, that it was all right with her, if he was
slapped around a little in the process; after all, he slapped her around, more
than a few times, over the three years they were together. I asked if she had a
current boyfriend, and her answer was vague. I figured she did and he must have
been white and married. He couldn’t get his hands dirty, or he didn’t know
about the old boyfriend; however, the old boyfriend knew about the brand-new
boyfriend, and he was threatening to louse up her new life. I told her that I’d
talk to him. She slid an envelope across the table. In the envelope were three
$50 bills and a card with a name and address along with a picture of the
gentleman in question. She said there would be another couple of hundred in it
for me when I completed the job. I told her I’d have something to tell her in a
couple of days. She gave me her thanks, a smile and then disappeared into the
night.</span></div>
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The next morning I went to the address on the card.</b> It was a prewar apartment
building with black-and-white tiles in the lobby, high ceilings, ornate
moldings, and grand archways; it was a beautiful building. I wondered if they
had any vacancies, I would have liked to live there. Then I thought about the
business I was about, and I decided it was only a pipe dream; I was going to
kick the snot out of one of my perspective neighbors, not a good way to
introduce yourself.</span><br />
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It was an elevator building without a doorman or front desk, so, once I got
someone to buzz me in; I could go right up. I had a photo of the target, and as
I walked by, a guy resembling my client’s former boyfriend came walking out the
front door. He had a lunchbox and was wearing coveralls with his name on one
side and “Quality Auto Repair” on the other.</span><br />
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While he was gone, I decided to go upstairs and make myself at home. The guy I
wanted, lived on the third floor near the back. The front door was locked, but
I knew from experience, with a little patience someone will let you in. It
could be a teacher going off to work; or a factory worker dragging in after
third shift; a kid off to school or a mom off to buy groceries. Sometimes it
would take a nice smile and nod of the head, but someone will always let you
in.</span><br />
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Today it was the teacher; she eyed me up and down, noticing how sharply I was
dressed. I wore a fedora; brim pulled low; neatly pressed tan pants with a
white dress shirt, light starch and a blue blazer with gold buttons and my
shoes shone to a high gloss. I smiled; that confident, friendly, useful smile
that has gotten me out of more scrapes than I could count.</span><br />
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“Thank-you ma’am.”</span><br />
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“That’s miss.”</span><br />
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“Oh, thank-you miss.”</span><br />
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“Gloria, Gloria Powell, from 4C. Are you new to the building?”</span><br />
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“I’m thinking of moving in. Do you know of any vacancies, Miss Gloria?”</span><br />
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“I think 2D is moving. But check with the super and don’t let him swindle you,
he sometime tries to add $10 or $15 to the rent for new people.”</span><br />
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“Why, thank-you Miss Gloria, with that information, I’ll be ready for him.”</span><br />
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“Hope you get that apartment.”</span><br />
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“Me, too. Thank-you Miss Gloria, have a nice day.”</span><br />
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“Good-bye Mr.?”</span><br />
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“Gunn, Jacob Gunn.”</span><br />
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“Good-bye Mr. Gunn.”</span><br />
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I offer my hand, and she takes it.</span><br />
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“Please, Miss Gloria, call me Jacob.”</span><br />
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“All right, good-bye Jacob,” she pulls her hand away teasing my fingers. I hold
open the door and watch her walk down the street and around the corner; she
didn’t look back, but you could tell she knew I was watching.</span><br />
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I walked up to the third floor and tried the lock; it was open, amazing in this
day an age, that people still left their front doors open. I looked around the
apartment. Mr. Little lived simply; a small black-and-white TV was on a table
in the corner, and the radio on the kitchen counter was tuned to a jazz
station. The living room was furnished with a couch, and an easy chair placed
in front of the TV; a cheap turquoise dinette for two was next to the counter
separating the kitchen from the living room, no pictures, not of him, my client
or his parents, he’s a loner or maybe an orphan. In the single bedroom, he had
made his bed; he was most likely a military man, judging from the Spartan
furnishings and the shoes shined and placed neatly in the closet; one, no two
nice suits, they looked tailor made, no women’s clothes, no clothes that didn’t
belong to him. He was a big guy 52 long; most of the clothes came from Macy’s,
there was one suit with a fancy Italian label probably a gift, but from whom?
The client dropped a hundred and fifty beans without batting an eye. Maybe she
gave it to him; she was the kind of woman who would want her man to look good
if she was going to be on his arm.</span><br />
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I found his checkbook and savings passbook; he has a balance of $318.76, really
$328.76 in the checking, (he forgot to carry the one) and $1521 in savings.
That seems like a lot of money for a mechanic, he could be saving for a car, he
could almost buy a new Chevy, or Ford, but if he wanted a Pontiac, he was a few
hundred short. I wondered if he earned it the old-fashioned way, or if it was a
payoff to keep silent.</span><br />
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Well, I got the lay of the land, and it was time to go; I put everything back
the way I found it, because I was going to come back tonight and have a talk
with Mr. William Little. I checked the hallway; no one was around, and as I
closed the door, I thought “Mr. Little it has been a pleasure getting to know
you.”</span></span><br />
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He left for work around 8 am. So, I figured a half-hour on the subway, arriving
at work about 8:30 am; eight hours working; a half-hour for lunch means he’d
clock out at 5 pm; another half-hour on the subway home, arriving around
5:30 pm; add another hour to clean up and eat he should be ready for our little
chat around 6:30 pm tonight.</span><br />
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I came back around 6 pm just in time to see him leaving. I admit I was curious
how Mr. Little spent his evenings, so I followed him. He stopped at a payphone
and made a call. It was a local call because he only put in one nickel. I was too
far away to hear to whom he was talking or what was said, but I could see that
he was very upset. A minute or two into the call he began to strike the side of
the telephone, over and over, harder and harder, faster and faster; like he was
beating out a message, suddenly he shouts something into the telephone and
violently hangs up.</span><br />
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“I bet I know where he is headed next,” I say out loud.</span><br />
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The name of the bar was Kate’s</b><span style="line-height: 150%;">, it was a nice neighborhood bar that served
food, which looked and smelled good; it had my favorite beer on tap, Schlitz,
and if you were of a different mind, Budweiser and Miller High Life. The prices
were reasonable, Kate was friendly, and the other patrons were into minding
their own business.</span><br />
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I took a seat near the back, ordered pastrami on rye and a beer, and watched
Mr. Little drown his sorrows.</span><br />
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It seemed that Mr. Little preferred Budweiser, which was the only thing I
found, so far, that wasn’t likeable, well, except that he likes to slap dames
around. I couldn’t do much about the former but the latter I was going to
address later tonight.</span><br />
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I finished my sandwich and left a healthy tip for Kate; and then I went to Mr.
Little’s apartment and waited for him to return. Again, he left the door open,
and I slipped inside. I sat in the living room chair with the lights off
thinking I’d surprise him; he was a big guy and even after a few drinks, he
could be hard to handle.</span><br />
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By the time he got home, he was tight, not drunk, but you could tell he was
feeling it. Fumbling with the door, he managed to get it closed and was feeling
around for the light switch when I spoke.</span><br />
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“Mr. Little?”</span><br />
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Startled he hit the light switch and spun around.</span><br />
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“Who are you and why the fuck are you in my living room?”</span><br />
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“Mr. Little I have been asked by a young woman, Miss Amanda Jones, that I
believe you know, to ask you to stop bothering her. She feels that your time
together, while somewhat amusing, is over and the smart thing to do would be to
have no further contact with her.”</span><br />
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“What business is it of yours? That is between me and Amanda.”</span><br />
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“I was asked, by Miss Jones, to deliver this message to you.”</span><br />
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“Right, like I give a good God damn.”</span><br />
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“Mr. Little, you should give a damn. I’m here to deliver the message; and come
to an equitable accommodation; so, I can overlook your unfortunate outburst,
but understand I will protect my client's interest, vigorously.”</span><br />
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“Okay, what’ll she pay?”</span><br />
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“I’m not authorized to discuss that with you.”</span><br />
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“Then why am I wasting my time talking to you? It is like I told her on the
phone tonight, she gives me what I want or I’ll tell her fine, married, white
boy, not only she isn’t white but (here is the cherry on top): I was there
first; big, black, me. I’d bet that little cracker will run for the hills or
back to his wife’s bed, if she’ll have him, and Amanda will be left out in the
cold.”</span><br />
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“Mr. Little, I‘m here to see that doesn’t happen.”</span><br />
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“Who’s going to stop me? You?"</span><br />
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”Yes.”</span><br />
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He was three inches taller and 35 or so pounds heaver and well muscled. I was a
star football player in college, starting at fullback and linebacker, and I was
the place kicker too. I never did mind a little scrap; I enjoyed it
occasionally; it felt good besting another man with fist, knife, or gun, it
didn’t matter to me.</span><br />
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Mr. Little charged me; I stood up and relied on a skill learned on the
gridiron. I gave him my 35-yard field goal kick, right in the balls, which
dropped him to his knees. A quick left, left, right, and he was done, curled up
on the floor holding his nuts and trying to regain feeling in his face.</span><br />
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I sat back down in the chair and waited until he could talk. After a while, he
spoke.</span><br />
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“You son-of-a-bitch! I’m going to rip your balls off.”</span><br />
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“Really? That was my 35-yard place kick; you know I made field goals from 40
and 45 yards, too. Would you like me to demonstrate? I usually don’t like to
kick a guy in the nuts, (there is something unmanly about it), but for a guy
who likes to slap dames around, I will make an exception. So, Mr. Little are
you going to leave my client alone?”</span><br />
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“No way! She tossed me aside. I was saving up for a ring. We could have been
happy, next month I start with the Transit Authority, that is a real good job;
it pays well, and we would have had a good life. I just don’t understand, why
wasn’t that good enough, why wasn’t I good enough?”</span><br />
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“Get off the floor, Mr. Little and sit over there,” I say pointing to the
couch, he groans, rises and sits gingerly on the couch.</span><br />
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“You got a hell of a kick mister. I guess this is where you tell me that if I
don’t stop you will come back and show me that 40-yard kick, huh?”</span><br />
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I nod.</span><br />
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“You won’t have to come back, I got the message. Mister, would you give her a
message?”</span><br />
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“What is it?”</span><br />
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“If it don’t work out for her, she can come back. Tell her, I‘m sorry I hit her
and it won’t happen again. You are right; I was listening to a man on the
corner from the Nation who said, “If you berate and beat your women you damage
yourself,” he was right. Tell her mister, please.”</span><br />
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“Alright Mr. Little, good-bye.”</span><br />
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As I closed the door, I looked back</b>, at the broken man sitting with his head in
his hands. Like I said before, she was the kind of woman we needed to have love
us, so, imagine the heartbreaking pain, to have her, and her love, and then
lose it.</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><span style="color: #0b5394;">for ~ </span><span style="color: #666666;">"THE SHADOWS OF OUR NOIR"</span></i></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #666666;"><b>Photo Cred:</b> Kate's Bar is really the Houndstooth Pub on 37th in NYC,</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;"><b>LEON JACKSON DAVENPORT ~</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b> Crime time author and all around good guy, but don't let that ruin his tough image. Leon's an Emmy nominated TV editor, fine art photographer and one of the booming voices you'll recall aboard this season's sailing of <span style="color: #0b5394;">HARBINGER*33</span>, manifesting authors' destinies. He's a smooth, wry storyteller who's gonna bring you back for another shot of this Gunn character . . .</b> <i>Watch for him where shadows come out to have their say.</i></span></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit;">That Leon, he don't say nothin' he don't mean, huh? And our Katie sure knows how to pick'em -- Youse writer-guys are aces in a stacked deck here </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">AT THE BIJOU</span></b><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">S</span><span style="font-size: large;">he’s seeing as though through a mask,</span></b><span style="font-size: large;"> its hugging surface woven of fine leather and peeking with thorns. Woe betide the kissing man who will surely die from her spikes. </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Counting down the seconds with bites of her blackened nails she begins to worry her lovers won’t come. They must! She is tearing at the skin now, ripping sore shreds away. Saliva slips into the wounds, puffing the flesh. </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">At last their car pulls into the driveway. He gets out first, does a comedy run around to <i>her</i> side to open the door. She’s looking beautiful tonight – he’s probably telling her that as he lifts her hair and speaks softly into her ear, his hand slipping down that long, slender </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">neck. </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">It’s strange to see them together. She is used to having each of them to herself. <i>Is this wrong? Can I do this, can I share? </i>The plan doesn’t seem as solid as it did yesterday, when she’d whispered the invitation. </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">“Don’t tell.” </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">They’d each acquiesced with a flush of the cheek; he in the morning, she - just minutes before </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">midnight.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">But they <i>must have</i> told. </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">It changes everything. </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">They let themselves in, as instructed. She hears them utter meaningless words in low voices as they pour themselves drinks from the bar. Hers will be green gin and his, a dash of single malt. Their giggles entice; the ice in their glasses chimes louder than bells in the expansive hallway. She hears the clatter of heels and soft shuffle of Brogues on parquet. Her breath rises a notch in the dark, keeping time with every step of their feet as they mount the creaking staircase. </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">She will greet them as never before. </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Her look is of love as she opens the bedroom door - naked as the rose petals that cover the floor, the windowsill, the bed. Her hands drip with </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">blood <i>as red as the rose petals that cover the floor, the windowsill, the bed</i>. The daggers are sticky in her hand – one for each neck, one for each heart. </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">She can share after all. </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">As they stand - adulterous eyes taking in her body - she opens her arms. They cannot help themselves, and move towards her. His fingers reach for her waist. He slips them into the open holes she has slit beneath her ribs. His wife drops to her knees; her kisses </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">will sting.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">The descent is all she has dreamed of. Slow, an emptying of life-force, a giddying plummet towards the fabled <i>little death</i>. She smiles as they carry her to the bed; she has been waiting to offer herself up to them this way for so long. </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">They are clumsy. Surely they share the desire to drink her dry? Light flares in her memory and she swallows a missed beat of the heart. Who are these people? How did she get here? </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Lights off. </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">The lovers fall and fall again, sobbing with tears of seduction, eyes wide open, throats wide open – giving themselves to her in a rush. The game is no longer hers to command, she tells herself, slipping over wet skin. She wonders if she ever really told them the game was theirs all along. Their faces reveal a different truth and she wonders then, if they even know she</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> is.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">O</span><span style="font-size: large;">utside, sirens scream like banshees; </span></b><span style="font-size: large;">closer – closer still. She wonders at the noises in her head. They’re of radios and cell phones and panic and fear. Someone else’s fear. They slam doors and <i>bang</i> doors; break doors down and come </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">running.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">She twists her head this way and that. Her lovers lay on either side, throats glistening. His still has the stiletto blade standing erect, though the flow has ebbed. Her dagger has toppled to join the one at her heart making a crucifix between her small breasts. </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">“Oh, hell.” </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">A man creates a shadow on the wall. She watches him lift his phone to his mouth. </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">“Emmerson? We’re too late. </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">They’re dead.”</span><br /> <br /><span style="font-size: large;">She hears him talking to Emmerson and the others that now crowd the room, of <i>stalkers</i> and <i>escapees</i> and <i>mental health </i>and <i>danger</i> and <i>delusion</i>. Of <i>Mr and Mrs Radford</i>, newly-wed. </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Her mask is lifting, taking with it the cobweb barbs and the cord that has tightened itself around her thoughts for so very long. In the rush of release she observes the scene in all its stark reality, seeing clearly for the first time in years – and understands what she has done. </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">“Stop her! Somebody, stop...” </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">She reclaims the knives, studies them for a lucid moment, then remembers. Her little lovers; glistening steel and sharp as the razors with which her mother cut </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">her own wrists. When <i>was</i> that?</span><br /> <span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">All is well. All is well. She plunges the daggers into her neck, welcomes the warmth that sprays over the sheets and onto her skin. </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">The growing crowd makes the oddest of sounds. She watches them spill their insides; opens her mouth to tell them she is sorry but all that comes out </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">is <i><span style="color: #cc0000;">red</span></i>.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">It feels better now, this darkening, wet place. She doesn’t know the man and woman beside her, though she’s been in their house for a while. <i>At least they will always be together.</i> The thought makes her happy and she is filled with joy at having learned to truly share – their home, their love, their lives – whoever they were. </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Pulse. </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">People blur in and out. </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Pulse. </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Someone leans over her to press her scarlet fountains, leaving the blades in situ. </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Pulse. </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Lightning, is it lightning? It flashes over and over, turning the world into negative and negative and negative and so maybe, just maybe - it’s a camera and... </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Absolutely*Kate:</span><span style="color: #0b5394;"> Oh Al, come on, it's not that terrifying. Lily Childs is the epitome of suspense, gut leveling as it may be. We're <i>lucky</i> to have her here. So the jujubes got shook up and the Snickers bars quit laughing. Lily's going places, star to the firmaments, that kind of lofty launch. The gal has stage presence, I tell ya.</span></b></span></div>
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of the Joe Hunter series, Matt Hilton. She blogs regularly at <a href="http://lilychildsfeardom.blogspot.com/">Lily Childs Feardom</a> and you can follow her on Twitter @LilyChilds and facebook.com/lilychildsfeardom</b></div>
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I wrote this for my loving and romantic mother several months after she lost her fella and I lost my father. Less than two months later, I said farewell to her for the last time as well.</div>
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They're together again . . . loving up where the stars know greater lights, </div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>C</b><b>harlie was a sailor when his ship came in.</b> He whistled low his favorite tunes. He heaped high his fondest hopes, back and forth, forth and back on the first dogwatch from 4 to 6 pm when land was sited. It had been a journey to remember, and he was on a journey to discover, a journey towards all the<i> what nexts</i> a man who revered life could reasonably shove into a navy blue duffle bag.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Charlie loved life, people and a real swell gal named Mabel . . . but he didn't know that yet. He didn't know Mabel yet. And Mabel thought she was in love with Tommy. Tommy however, was infatuated with his new Nash Rambler convertible and would be not at all pleased later that evening when Mabel's chocolate shake would dribble down chrome and sheen in an unfortunate A&W car hop delivery scene. As Mabel's sense and sensitivities were on a subconscious quest for a man of gumption who loved life to join up with as a forever loving wife, back home 'round about midnight, she would pick up a pen and cross <strike>Tommy and his materialism grumbles</strike> clean outtasite off her Mr Wonderful list.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But back to fathoming Charlie. Peering from the edge of the pier into a variegated dusk strata settling the aura of the western horizon, he passed his hand o'er dark waves upon waves of thick black hair, swiveling tall torso to advantage his best vantage back at the </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">USS Constant</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">. Charlie's instincts knew when it mattered to hold moment to memory, indelible as Dale Carnegie would someday reinforce the technique in him . . . but not yet. The trusty barnacled ship had been this first mate's fate for a pack of years, the formative ones, the ones that made a lanky boy from a small city a bigger man of his own reckoning. Charlie's inner barometer attuned genuine readings of sensational smiles and the solid gaze knowing eyes bespoke. The insight of his sight saw the best within ordinary folk. Even when they didn't see it, Charlie brought it out of them the more, from purposeful or chance encounters.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Charlie chuckled. This dame was a looker alright, but some of the other qualities his journey had him yearning for, like substance and grace, talking long into the night or being on the same wavelength that silently spoke cross currents . . . just weren't all on board. But the night was a bambino, and he was hungry. "Saaaay, you know where a guy can get a good spaghetti dinner in this ol' town?"</span><br /> <span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Wilma Jean led Charlie to DellaRosa's. Della herself warned Charlie as she served a magnificent antipasto and the best house straw-basket chianti, about fast girls on speedy nights. "You looka like'a nice'a boy. Why you messin' wit dat one? She's a'trouble I tell you. Find yourself a nice'a girl. Ask her to be your wife. Kiss her close and dance her tight. Care and share ~ <i>la vita bella</i>. You'll be a better kinda happy spending all your days in a <i>bee-yoo-ti-ful life</i>." When Wilma Jean returned from the Ladies room, Signora Rosa slopped a little sauce on the red and white checkered table cloth and Charlie's date swore like a . . . well, like a sailor.</span></span><br />
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<i style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Making believe<br />I'm talkin' to you;<br />Wish you could hear what I say.</span></i></div>
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<i style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Making believe is just another way of dreaming</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />so til my dreams come true </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">~ <b>Author Absolutely*Kate</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">for <b>True Lovers</b> everywhere </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">warbled well by Ella Fitzgerald and the Ink Spots,</span></i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>MABEL</b> and her </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>CHARLIE</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #741b47;">,</span><br /><b style="color: #741b47;">FRANNY</b><span style="color: #741b47;"> and her </span><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">PAUL</span></b><span style="color: #741b47;"> ~</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #741b47;">There comes special hunks of sparks of Life</span><br /><span style="color: #741b47;">when Love simply, thus strongly,</span><br /><span style="color: #741b47;">conquers all.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">~ Happy Mother's Day<br />of always Loving, Mom<br /><br /><br />~ your Katie</span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Jes leave your surmisals in da comments joint. There's a prize on the line. A big heist came through. It could happen to You.</i></b></span></div>
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<b style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: xx-large;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"> to pen this one out?</span> </b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>"Tension, murder, the femme fatale</b> who knows what she wants and just how to get it. Black and white or garish colors with low angled camera shots, or quick incisive sentences filled with language that snaps and bites. Throw in a harrowing sense of unease – the feeling none of this is going to end well – and you are almost there, but not quite." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b style="font-size: xx-large;">You are the kind of guy who is not easily surprised. </b><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">She was trouble the first time you laid eyes on her and you knew it. Long legs that left nothing to the imagination, an hourglass figure with curves in all the right places, and deep, piercing blue eyes that cut through your heart like a stiletto. And then there was the way her long blonde hair dipped across her face before she flipped it back with a slight shake and twist of her head. </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">Everything about her made you want more. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b style="font-size: xx-large;">This is how it started. </b><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">Ignoring the knock on my door, I reached for the bottle of rye instead. I’d already had too much but the headache making my eyeballs throb wouldn’t treat itself. </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">‘Either let yourself in or beat it.’ I yelled. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b style="font-size: xx-large;">I was sitting on a bench minding my own business</b><span style="font-size: x-large;">, waiting for Harry’s Bar to open. I had a fifth of bourbon hidden in my coat pocket, was taking nips to keep the cold out. Trying to make it last. Failing. The money was running out and I had no idea what I would do when it was gone. </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">I saw Harry open the doors and he looked over and nodded. I stood up, but before I even took a step forward, a couple of kids ran past and knocked the hat off my head. </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">‘Hey, watch what you’re doing,’ I shouted, bending down to get my hat. My bad leg gave way and I fell to the ground, landing on my hat and my hip. I heard glass break, felt wetness, realised it wasn’t just my hat that was ruined. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b style="font-size: xx-large;">The cop said: </b><span style="font-size: x-large;">"We have enough on you for petty larceny. You tell us about Anthony, we'll take that into consideration."</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">Otis sipped the shitty coffee. Other than that, he kept his mouth shut. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>As he lay dying in the East Tremont Section of the Bronx</b>, the bullet wounds he had sustained to the throat and abdomen throbbed with each new pulse and spilled vital blood from his heart to the freezing sidewalk beneath him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">Miguel Sanchez gasped for help on the northeast corner of Garden Street. Getting help at 4:22 on an icy Saturday morning was futile, only Sanchez was too naïve to know any better. The streets were empty. They were usually bustling with varied kinds of illicit traffic at this hour. Maybe it was the gunfire that cleared the sidewalks. Maybe it was the cold.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b style="font-size: xx-large;">This didn't feel right. </b><span style="font-size: x-large;">My partners were late and I kept thinking it could have been for a thousand different reasons and all of them bad. Our job was done and this should feel like the home stretch, but things can quickly go south and get hotter than a $3 pistol. </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">The lacquer cracker on the jukebox kept skipping so I told that corn-fed giant-of-a-barkeep to unplug that hunk-of-junk once and for all or find something worth playing. Besides, it wasn't the time for the rah-rahs of wartime propaganda.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b style="font-size: xx-large;">Buddy had been around so long</b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> that he was just as familiar and ignored as the ottoman he liked to nap beside. Twenty-one years is a long time for a dog. He’d gone nearly deaf about five years ago and his hips were creaky like the back porch screen door but he could still see and could still smell a squirrel in the front yard while squatting for a dump in the back.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">His still presence was a part of the house, ignored and outdated as the encyclopedias on the shelf in the living room. They’d long outlived their usefulness but it was more trouble than it was worth to toss them out. Many nights the lights would be turned off when Greta and Karl went upstairs to bed and Buddy would go another night without supper simply because they forgot he was there. If he was smart he would have taken up snoring to make his presence known but he just lay silently in the evenings as Karl berated Greta for her lousy housekeeping and Greta screeched at Karl for his lack of hygiene.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">Buddy’s deafness was more than likely self-inflicted.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b style="font-size: xx-large;">I sat in the room, doing the old Sam Spade bit</b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> waiting for the femme fatale to knock, and thinking to myself, ‘There has to be a better way than this?’ I couldn’t think of anything. A man past forty, whose waist size exceeds his age, needs something kind of sedate to get by on. </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">The room wasn’t a PI’s office. In fact it wasn’t even much of a room. It was a box at the end of a damp corridor above a pole-dancing club with rusty poles. It was more like a storage closet, plaster board tacked onto a wooden frame, no paper, no photos or diplomas in frames, just boxes of stacked junk lining the walls and an old Formica-topped table and two plastic chairs. I’d sat in chairs just like them at school back in the eighties. They were uncomfortable then; now that my arse had grown much bigger they were torture. I was itching like crazy and all I wanted to do was get up and pull the material of my shorts out of my crack. But I held the nonchalant pose of a noir anti-hero; people kind of expected it when they arrived. </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">The femme fatale arrived. She didn’t knock because there was no door.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: purple;"><b>Once upon a Myth,</b> </span>Truth became a fragile Reality. I have lived to tell this tale, but barely, just barely, and delectably, with . . . </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://lilychildsfeardom.blogspot.com/2012/02/eros-errors-by-absolutelykate-february.html" style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>CONTINUED</b> @ <b>LILY CHILDS'</b> <b>FEARDOM</b> OF HONOURABLE HOSTING.</a></span><div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">FROM THIS <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>FEMME FATALE</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">OVER AT <span style="color: purple;"><b>LILY'S HEAVEN</b></span></span></span></div>
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</div>Kate Pilarcik ~ absolutelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12430278736281847787noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6243178661707887834.post-36422554066646173312012-02-14T03:24:00.000-05:002012-02-14T03:27:11.657-05:00"BOARDROOM MASSACRE" ~ By Darren Sant ... *The Shadows of Our Noir*<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>"Hey noir lovely lady,<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span>Thought your audiences may dig this . . ."<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span>~ Daz</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>instead of a Valentine's Day one?"</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>~ Absolutely*Kate . . . </i></span></div>
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>"And . . . </i></span><i style="color: #bf9000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So it goes . . . "</i><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i> ~ vital Vonnegut,</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="http://darrensant-writer.yolasite.com/"><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">The Darren Sant ever-evolving spiritual home for prolific writings ~ a timeline of teeming talent ticking </b></a></span></div>
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<b><a href="http://www.craigrobertdouglas.com/" style="background-color: #fff2cc;">OLD SETH voice o'choice ~ @ CLOSE TO THE BONE</a></b></div>
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<br /><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Poet ... Renegade rockin' writer ... to gritty urban industrial-strength Radgepacket series contributor, Darren Sant, the DAZ-man, rocks words online and where ebooks are sold. Rockin' on, his career's now on a roll. All along the way, readership, regards for fellow authors and a heart of gold (to which I attribute his niche-name of a nickname) garner greater lustre.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>I dove into a delve, or delved in as I dove, to learn more of this lustre. Daz's ready shine illuminated my investigation. There was no bluster ~</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><i style="background-color: #fff2cc;">*** The guy simply, thus strongly, has a doggone deep appreciation for the PEOPLE in his LIFE:</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">DAZ:</span></span><span style="color: #cc0000;"> Not long after I met my wife she paid for a collection of my poems to be bound in a booklet. That was the most personal amazing present I have ever received. </span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><i>*** <span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">He gives from depth,</span> Daz does,</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">DAZ:</span></span></b> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">My brother died in September. I don't wish to be maudlin but I feel the best present I can give is for me to scatter his ashes on the football ground we used to go to. I will be doing this early 2012. I feel this is the best present I will ever be able to give.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><i>*** My heart hugged his. Empathy emanated intuition. Darren shared how he would like to be remembered as an evolving author:</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">DAZ:</span></span></b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"> </span> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">I'd like to take this opportunity to say that I will be eternally grateful for the people who have given me a chance and published me. Including you Dearheart Kate.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /><i><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">*** I love it when Daz calls me "Dearheart" ... more so on Valentine's Day. So I pursued the spurt of Higher Energy I sensed around the guy. I asked him about the premise of the promise we both hold dear ~ </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">authors taking authors the higher ... and his recent development taking up a slice of facebook real estate: The WRITING' SUPPORT NETWORK? The whys of his wise . . .</span></i></span><br />
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<b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">DAZ:</span></span></b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">I have answers. Sadly not the answers to Life's great mystery or even to where all the pens disappear to. However, I have answers that I'm hoping you will find fine and dandy!</span></span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> It’s quite simple Dearheart. I felt so much love and support out there from my fellow writers that I wanted to focus it. Social media gives all of us the chance to have our voice. The group is my way of trying to focus and amplify that voice in a pleasant and supportive environment.</span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span></div>
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><i>*** Ahhh, been there, done that, dig that. With teeming talents and all the skies in no-limit mode, I gleaned the <span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">best sainted Sant approach for hitting the worlds he desired destiny to reach:</span></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #783f04;">Mr Lombardi looked me solid in the eye when he let that one fly by. I remember it well. I didn't hesitate. I winked back, and then went for the slant ... deep out ... deep in ... short post. It was a stop n'go and I caught what Bart's rifle arm could throw.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #783f04;">Life's all about keeping score, making goal line stands, being an open receiver, and somedays, glorious somedays, even perfecting a sanctified Hail Mary pass. Well sure, in the super game of Life there are shifty officials, illegal procedures, botched incompletions and sometimes, when the blitz is really on, intentional grounding. That's when my hero, my Dad, who looked to Lombardi as </span><i style="color: #783f04;">his</i><span style="color: #783f04;"> hero, would ask, </span><i><span style="color: #0b5394;">"What are you gonna do Kid? You know you can lick anything. Just always give it your best. Always."</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">As for my credentials … I don’t claim to be a professional graphic artist or cover designer, but it is something I enjoy doing, and the importance of effective design is something that was battered into my fragile brain during my time at art school, half a lifetime ago. I have designed covers for my partner Julie Morrigan’s published ebooks — <b>Gone Bad, Convictions, Heartbreaker </b>and <b>The Writing on the Wall</b>, as well as her forthcoming novel <b>Darke</b> —and was delighted when Luca Veste recently gave me the opportunity to produce a cover for the recently published <b>Off the Record</b> short story collection. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #073763;">We’re told you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover.</span> </b>However, you can certainly judge whether the publisher — or author — cares enough about the product to invest in a captivating cover design. Because people do judge books by their covers — it’s the first thing they see, and the thing they will base their first impression of your work upon. Anyone who walks into a book store does it. And that’s no different with ebooks. </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I’m lucky in that I’m a keen photographer. I had a few shots used in the recent noir-themed special of Doug Mathewson's <i>Blink Ink</i> magazine, and others published in some more outlandish places, from a French book on street performance and dance, to a UK parliamentary campaign group’s presentation on Scottish gang culture. Most of my book designs so far have been created using photographs that I’ve taken personally. </span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Stock photography sites can also provide excellent cover images for your book. Pricing structures vary, but some sites offer free, fully licensed images at smaller sizes or resolutions (usually sufficient for ebook covers), with nominal charges usually in the order of just a few dollars for commercial use of larger images. </span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Critically, this can help ensure your book cover doesn’t breach somebody else’s copyright. As an author, you wouldn't be happy if someone took your writing and used it without your permission, would you? Photographers and graphic artists have the same rights — always remember that just because an image is on the Internet doesn't necessarily mean it is public domain. Downloading an image and using it as an ebook cover constitutes commercial use, and could leave you open to legal action by the copyright owner. Most reputable publishers will credit the cover photographer or designer on the book’s title and copyright page. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I</span><span style="font-size: large;">n 1631 </span></b><span style="font-size: large;">a reprint of the King James Bible contained a very small error: the word ‘not’, was omitted from one of The Ten Commandments, resulting in it reading ‘Thou shalt commit adultery’. (Full story </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_Bible" style="font-size: x-large;">here</a><span style="font-size: large;"> for those who are interested) Crown and church were appalled, copies were recalled, and the printers were fined and had their license removed. </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;">It’s now almost four hundred years since the then Archbishop of Canterbury said: </span><b style="font-size: x-large;"><i><span style="color: #741b47;">‘I knew the tyme when great care was had about printing …’</span></i> </b><span style="font-size: large;">and yet in many ways it seems not much has changed.The technology is different, sure, but are our books now free from errors? Judging by the criticism frequently heaped upon small and self-publishers, it would seem not. I, and I’m sure some of you, have bought books/e-books recently and found them to be very poorly presented: badly formatted, full of spelling and grammatical errors, and including inconsistencies of style. I’ve even seen a couple with spelling errors on the cover. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #741b47;">You may think that if your work is being put out by a publisher, then they will absolve you of some of the responsibility and ensure that it iseditedandproofread, but that may not be the case. </span></span><span style="font-size: large;">Wherever possible, ask for a proof of the formatted book before it is published; that way you can catch any mistakes, whether missed prior to that point or introduced by the publisher. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">I’m lucky in that I have an editor and proofreader to call on for all my writing. If I didn’t, I’d have to make other arrangements — perhaps by coming to an agreement with another writer whereby we proofread for each other. </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #741b47;">Because it’s essential to get another pair of eyes over a document, if only because it’s all too easy to be blind to our own mistakes. </span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: x-large;"><br /><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Proofreading and editing is an essential part of the pre-publication process, not just something you do if you have time.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> You work very hard to create your characters and their world, and to tell their story. You owe it to them — and to yourself — to make sure that when readers talk about your book afterwards, they are commenting on the realistic dialogue, razor-sharp prose and terrific characterisation, not complaining about avoidable errors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">FOR KATIE'S <span style="color: #666666;">"<b>SHADOWS OF OUR NOIR</b>"</span> ... <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">AT THE BIJOU</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">J</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">immy had half of his face covered with his hand, and when
he turned around I knew he was trying not to laugh at me. Seeing him do that
was my trouble, honey, not anything I mighta done or not done. When the bulls
came into my crummy little apartment in New York years ago, I was just sitting
there with a butt and a glass of bourbon in one hand and my little Remington
derringer in the other, and Mr. No Good Two-Timer all spread out on the bed
with all that blood staining the pillowcases. Didn’t even take my smile off
when they threw me in the cooler.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> But when
Jimmy was trying to hide how hard he was laughing at me? Yeah, that spells
trouble for a girl, especially when there’s some private dick on the couch
across the way asking about another dead body. I licked my lips and gave him my
stage smile.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> “Sweetie,
you’re just gonna have to stop messing around and tell me.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> “We found
him dead, Miss Dietrich. His wife saw him leave for work this morning, and then
we find him out back behind the newspaper office tonight.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> I made my
eyes real wide, and Jimmy had to turn around again. Nobody made Jimmy laugh
like me, and I kinda like that. “Oh, goodness, that’s just… gosh. How awful!
What happened?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> “I was
hoping you could tell me that, Miss Dietrich.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> “I don’t
see how she possibly could,” Jimmy said, face all serious again, that sweet
accent of his filling up the room. I don’t know what it is about English guys.
They never really did it for me until Jimmy. Now I could sit here listening to
him read the paper for hours, watching him run those long piano fingers through
hair the same color a Hershey kiss left on your fingers if you held it without
the foil, not to mention those eyes. You look straight at them, and they’re the
palest shade of something in the middle of blue and gray, but you look at him
from the side while he’s looking straight ahead, and they’re gold, I ain’t
kidding. Jimmy reached for the deck of Luckies on the table and pulled one out.
“She was with me all afternoon.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> “Doing
what, if I may ask, Mr. Sangster?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> There was
that smile again, lips all closed and one eyebrow going up. Jimmy was trying
not to laugh, and I just couldn’t take it anymore. I had to pretend to take a
drink of bourbon before I started in. “Now, Detective, that isn’t a terribly
appropriate conversation.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> The cop
looked back at me, but I was real busy inspecting the inside of my glass and
trying to stop grinning. “All day, Mr. Sangster?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> “Hannah’s
quite a woman,” he said, all calm and cool and British, and I set the glass
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> “Any other
questions, sweetie?” I crossed my legs at the knees, and the hem of my dress
might’ve gone up just a little bit. I saw him staring at my ankles, and I
rotated one foot in a circle. He cleared his throat and looked back at me, no
kidding around this time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> “Are there
any other witnesses who’ll swear you were here all day, Miss Dietrich?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> I put the
ciggy to my lips and had a nice, long smoke. “No, sweetie, I ain’t that kinda
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> The cop was
getting awful red by now, and Jimmy was watching me the way a cat looks at a
bird through a window. I was gonna get it, and I didn’t care one little bit.
“What brought you to Los Angeles, Miss Dietrich?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> “What girl
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> “You see,
that’s what I’d like to know.” The detective leaned back against the cushions,
all kinds of comfortable now. “There aren’t any records of you, Hannah. Not a
single one.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> “It’s Miss
Dietrich,” I said smoothly, tilting my head to one side. He’d done some
digging, that was pretty damn clear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> “Is it?
See, I don’t think that you’re really Hannah Dietrich. I’m not convinced
there’s a Hannah Dietrich at all.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> “Ain’t that
something.” I tried not to look at Jimmy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> “I believe
our time is up, Detective.” Jimmy handed me his ciggy and stood between me and
the man on the couch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> “I don’t
think we’re done here,” he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> “I believe
that we are.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> “No,
because, see, I read this story about a dame in New York about fifteen years
ago. Real pretty thing, with nice blond hair like Miss Dietrich there, only shorter,
and the prettiest green eyes, just like Miss Dietrich. Back in ’29. this dame
shot her husband with a little Remington derringer, just like our stiff, and
then she just disappeared out of jail.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> “That’s
fascinating.” Gosh, Jimmy could sound real, real cold when he wanted to. I was
shivering. I took a smoke off of his cigarette, just to taste him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> “The girl’s
stage name was Hannah Clara Santa Barbara. She was a dancer. Frequented a lot
of jazz clubs, speakeasies.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> “Ten years
ago, Detective?” Jimmy reached behind me for his ciggy. “Precisely how old was
this girl at the time?” The way the smoke just curled out of Jimmy’s mouth, the
way he stayed right between us… I needed another drink.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> “She was
about twenty, I’d say.”</span></div>
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turned around, giving me that little closed-lipped smile. “That would make this
pretty thing about thirty-five if that was the case, wouldn’t it? She doesn’t
look a day over twenty-one to me.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> Oh, Jimmy,
you…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> “It’s a
pity about the young man, but even if my darling girl was seeing him on the
side, well… I’m certain you’ve never had any such indiscretions come to your
notice, hm? Seems to me that your victim had his fair share of… how shall I put
this delicately…”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> “I see your
point, Mr. Sangster.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> “And it’d
be a horrible shame if your department were to come under investigation for
harassing my darling girl.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> The cop
stood and nodded to me around Jimmy. “My apologies, Miss Dietrich.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> “I’ll show
you out, Detective.” Jimmy kept right behind the man until he was safely in the
street, then locked the door and turned to me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> “Jimmy,
honest to God…”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> He finally
let the laughter go, those long needle fangs catching the light. “Hannah Clara
Santa Barbara, you are an absolute nightmare.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> “But you
love me anyway, honey,” I purred, hooking my fangs on the rim of the bourbon
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> “Aye, love,
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<b><a href="http://napsinthelibrary.com/" style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">Naps in the Library</a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><------- click & go visit </span></span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">her wild crazy ride of a blogsite ... </span>Shhhh, you're in a library, y'know</span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: purple; font-size: large;"><b>CHRISTINA ~</b></span> Well, Kate, like I told you backstage, I’ve been missin’ <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">AT THE BIJOU</span></b> something fierce, so I’m giving it my all now that I’ve come wandering out of my library and back on stage with the great gang here.<br />
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These fine folks can find me at <b><a href="http://napsinthelibrary.com/" style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Naps in the Library</a></b>, where you’ll see everything from horror to paranormal fiction to downright comedic nonsense. I’m a gal of many talents. I used to be a supervillain way back in the day, and you can see some links to my work as Lady Unpleasantries up on the site. I’m hoping to eventually rewrite all of those pieces because, as you’ll see if you dare venture that way, my writing style has changed dramatically since then… but don’t we all do everything dramatically?<br />
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I’m hard at work on two novels right now. One of them is the finished first draft of The Occult Consult, which is a dark comedy about demons, ghosts, zombies in a liquor store, and home-cooked Italian cuisine all mixed up with a little magic and a cat named Snickers. The second thing I’m pouring my heart and soul into is a story about vampires, shape shifters, and a hefty dose of paranormal science. The working title is The Project, and the very same James Sangster and Hannah Clara Santa Barbara that schmoozed their way into my latest <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">AT THE BIJOU</span></b> performance are some of the upcoming cast of that little horror/drama. If you keep your eyes peeled, you might see more of my extra special characters popping into the theater to steal your popcorn.<br />
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My short story<b> <span style="color: purple;">Inferna</span></b> won first place in the <b><span style="color: #7f6000;">Bloody Parchment</span></b> anthology competition, and will be published along with some amazing authors. <a href="http://bloodyparchment.blogspot.com/2012/01/2012-bloody-parchment-anthology-winner.html" style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Read all about it here</a>. Release date to be announced.<br />
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This has been such an incredible morning. Waking up to Nerine’s email was unreal. I had to read it three times before I believed it, and then proceeded to flood inboxes and cell phones with excited, caps lock-ridden messages. It’s remarkable to think that it’s beginning. This is my dream becoming reality.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">AND NOW I'M BACK ~ <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>AT THE BIJOU</b></span> ~ AGAIN. </span>It's my <i>encore</i> with <b>ENCORE</b>, our luscious Absolutely*Kate stage-whispered me, before she swooshed me out in this fabulous spotlight of <b>"The Shadows of Our Noir" </b>show. What a cast! What a slew of a crew -- Hey Kate? You writing my dialogue on this paragraph?<br />
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<br /></div>Kate Pilarcik ~ absolutelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12430278736281847787noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6243178661707887834.post-52426111014332692252012-01-19T00:23:00.001-05:002012-01-19T01:39:27.034-05:00TOMMYGUN MORALITY ~ By AJ Hayes . . . "NOIRETRY" AT THE BIJOU<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #bf9000;">Now parley up a gander at what</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">Powder stink and clinking brass. <br />Thompson gun is talking trash. <br />Tommy's speakin' high and right. <br />Pull down left, forget the sights. <br />Nicky Aces got the blues.<br />Forty-Fives are real bad news.<br /><br />Nicky dancin' all Jack Flash<br />Falls flat forward. Breathes his last.<br />Thompson says what Nicky knew.<br />Just one thing that you don't do.<br />Just one line that you don't cross:<br />Ain't no stealin' from the boss.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>Yeah</i>, we all kinda know this crime-writer, tough guy with a tender side he ain't gonna like me warblin' like a canary about out loud in public. <b>He's the champion of all the authors we are.</b> When I gotta glimpse of this piece featured in </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>BLACK HEART MAGAZINE'S</b></span><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> June, 2011 </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>NOIR ISSUE</b></span><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">, I couldn't resist the shared-promo heist. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #073763;">I jammed the roscoe in his button and said, 'Close your yap, bo, or I squirt metal.' Well, that wasn't exactly how it shook down, but </span><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">AT THE BIJOU</span></b><span style="color: #073763;"> <b>Noir-afficiandos</b>, you got to share our Fedora Fella's mighty fine love for lingo and his debonair flair -- or is that <i>flare</i> -- of flingin' it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">During </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">"THE </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;">S</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">HADOWS OF </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;">O</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">UR </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;">N</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-weight: bold;">OIR" </span><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">swanky shows</span></span> <b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">AT THE BIJOU</span></b><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">, AJ's under the hot spotlights in </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://at-the-bijou.blogspot.com/2011/11/november-goes-noir-at-bijou-bertinos.html" style="background-color: #fff2cc;">BERTINO'S HEAD</a></b></span><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> and a glimpse of our co-authoring novel, </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://at-the-bijou.blogspot.com/2011/11/november-goes-noir-at-bijou-spy-side.html" style="background-color: #fff2cc;">SPY-SIDE ECONOMICS</a></b></span><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">. You'll dig him there, as you do this big lug all around WebTowne, playin' at the usual suspected joints:</span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> <i><b>A Twist of Noir</b>, <b>Yellow Mama</b></i> and <i><b>Muse, Title Fights, Acorn Review, Flashshot, The Hard Nosed Sleuth, Shotgun Honey, Apollo’s Lyre</b></i> and <i><b>Black Heart Magazine’s</b> Noir Issue.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>slip into your ritzy <span style="color: #cc0000;">BIJOU</span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="font-size: large; text-align: right;">for a double featur</span><span style="font-size: large; text-align: right;">e</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>from any of these</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large; text-align: right;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit;"><b>Here's lookin' atcha Bub.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: x-large;">"Terrific post about Noir</span></b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"> </span>- I love the idea that it's a feeling rather than just a collection of words and scenes and characters.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">As with all good writing, it's the sense of the place, the time, the situation that reaches the reader. And noir done well - well, what can I say that you ain't already heard?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> <b>The idea of Noir Haiku</b> seemed very odd to me, but I resolved to give it a . . . shot, as it were.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">The first below came shortly after a 3-hour drive to the Russian River, and seemed like fun. So, maybe a few more of these Noir Haiku were possible.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">And then . . . the idea that the first was but a story in summary and the rest . . . the rest . . . they could be the whole story, told a piece at a time, in Haiku.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">At which point I went to bed. Don't be silly, Kevin!</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">Thanksgiving day - and <b>the story presented itself.</b> It doesn't have a title. In the finest of traditions, I'll leave that up to the publisher. I'm not calling the first a prologue, for that might mandate an epilogue! So, it remains a blurb, a summary, an intro to the unfolded story below it.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><b>I hope you enjoy,</b></i></span><br />
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<b style="background-color: #073763; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: yellow;">I DO enjoy what Kevin Mackey created,</span></b><b style="background-color: #073763; color: white; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;"> more so due to the inner spark I sense he's lit. He's like that, that way. And I like that. A lot.</b></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><b>My dear *Kate,</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><b>I've been enjoying your NOIR festival AT THE BIJOU.</b> You've assembled quite a set of writers. <b>My noir haiku are fun and will be a novelty in mix - but the stories you've collected are really good. </b>I'm glad to read ('hear' even, the voices are so clear) such noir. It assures the style hasn't gone out of…style.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>- KjM:</b></span><span style="color: #073763;"> A new group of, likely to be, <b>lifelong friends</b> almost two decades ago in the Midwest. That, for sure. And a second, if I may indulge, the <b>memories conjured by the unexpected arrival of a re-published schoolbook, of poetry.</b> I am fortunate in my siblings.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: x-large;"><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>- KjM:</b></span><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></i><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>Perhaps best I not say</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><b style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">- KjM:</span></b><span style="color: #073763; font-style: italic;"> <b>A story for children:</b> At Amazon, </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ribbon-in-the-Darkness-ebook/dp/B006OJ12VC/ref=sr_1_3?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1326496797&sr=1-3"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Ribbon in the Darkness</span></b></a><span style="color: #073763; font-style: italic;"> also available as a Barnes & Noble </span><a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ribbon-in-the-darkness-kevin-mackey/1108041914?ean=2940013884953&itm=1&usri=kevin+mackey" style="color: #073763; font-style: italic;"><b>Nook book</b></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><i style="color: #073763;"><b>Five short stories</b> <b>- not for children:</b> At Amazon,</i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sins-Father-other-stories-ebook/dp/B006OJK6T6/ref=sr_1_4?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1326496850&sr=1-4"> <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Sins of the Father - and other stories</span></b></a><i style="color: #073763;"> or as a Barnes & Noble </i><b style="color: #073763; font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sins-of-the-father-and-other-stories-kevin-mackey/1108042012?ean=2940013884977&itm=2&usri=kevin+mackey" style="color: #073763; font-style: italic;">Nook book</a>. </b></span></span><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">Five short stories <b>digging through the darker sides of relationships</b> - and the far-reaching impact we can have on one another.</i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b style="color: #073763; font-style: italic;">Poetry and Photographs, hopefully in harmony:</b> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Haiku-Through-a-Lens-ebook/dp/B0053PVAY2/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1326496890&sr=1-1"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Haiku - Through a Lens</span></b></a><span style="color: #073763; font-style: italic;"> at Amazon, or as a Barnes & Noble </span><b style="color: #073763; font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/haiku-through-a-lens-kevin-mackey/1103167287?ean=2940012948090&itm=3&usri=kevin+mackey" style="color: #073763; font-style: italic;">Nook book</a>. </b></span><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">Those who follow my tweets, or have seen my Facebook page, know that <b>I am fond of haiku. The small, beautiful, Japanese poetry style forms the vast bulk of my Twitter activity.</b> From time to time I have included photos of the world around me, pairing them with haiku.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><b><span style="color: #073763; font-style: italic;">Other of my work can be found right <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_24062148">here </a></span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><a href="http://at-the-bijou.blogspot.com/search/label/KEVIN%20J%20MACKEY">AT THE BIJOU</a></span><span style="color: #073763; font-style: italic;"> and on the web</span></b><span style="color: #073763;"><i> at the links on my blog, </i><b><a href="http://kjmackey.blogspot.com/">KjM - on the web</a></b><i>. <b>My thanks</b> to those who've been kind enough to feature my stories.</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-size: medium;">~ By <b>Absolutely*Kate</b> </span><span style="color: #073763; font-size: x-small;">and</span><span style="color: #073763; font-size: medium;"> <b>Kevin J. Mackey</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">I don't know if you've ever run across this poem, or the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, but my sister sent me a column of poetry (actually, they've - strangely enough - recently republished the poetry book we used in High School, and that's what she sent me.)</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://at-the-bijou.blogspot.com/2011/11/november-goes-noir-at-bijou-presents.html" style="color: #999933; text-decoration: none;">Kevin Michaels</a> </span>...<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://at-the-bijou.blogspot.com/2011/11/november-goes-noir-at-bijou-presents_04.html" style="color: #999933; text-decoration: none;">Graham Smith</a> </span>...<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://at-the-bijou.blogspot.com/2011/11/november-goes-noir-at-bijou-presents_05.html" style="color: #999933; text-decoration: none;">Julie Morrigan</a></span><b> </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span><span style="font-size: large;">rying to keep both my eyes private,</span></b><span style="font-size: large;"> I let the nightmare I’m riding whinny in the gray fields of Dream Town. Nostrils flaring––mine or the mare’s?––I toss and turn till the damn phone in the real world punches holes in my sleep. </span></span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“Yeah,” says my cotton mouth. </span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“Crane, sorry about the time.” </span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">You’ve been sorry before, Hotcakes. </span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“Your winning ticket’s dead.” </span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“Booth?” </span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“Booth. Dead as the proverbial doornail. One nasty hole through the temple.” </span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I scratch my forehead. Yawn. </span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“Hawkins gonna pay you a visit. He’ll want to know what you know about your client Booth. Which is pretty much nothing, so get your pants on.” </span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Walter Johnson Booth. President of Booth Industries. “Name your price, Mr. Crane.” That Booth. Only a week ago in my office he came to me looking grim. Desperate. I thought to myself, Okay, the Brooklyn Dodgers won their first World Series yesterday and he’s one pissed-off Yankees fan. I frame the smiling, game-winning pitcher Johnny Podres in my head and together we both toss back a scotch for Brooklyn. Then I give a quick look around at my dingy office, dress down my face into a scowl of disgust. The pastel-green peeling wall, the chipped desk, the very un-Persian rug fraying at our feet. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I throw a glance at Hotcakes, Betty-Grable gams crossed, dictation pad on her kneecaps. My price? What the hell. </span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“Thirty Big Ones, as in $30K’s,” I tell him. Maybe it’s the drink I toasted with Podres making me dumb-headed. </span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">He ups the ante. “Forty, Mr. Crane,” then offers his hand to shake on it. I wait for that same hand to sign the check. </span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Booth walks to the door. “Find her,” he says without unlocking his stone jaw. </span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">A week beating the bushes uncovering not even a hint of a rattler’s hiss and feeling damn guilty about the easy 40K, I get this wake-up call Booth is dead. Mrs. Crane––Ava Dell Crane––was still missing. Maybe at large. For a short second I miss the old days in the 40’s when I was Horvath Blatsmore, a Woolworth’s Five-and-Dime store manager in Hackensack, New Jersey. Bored to the bone. Hungry for the fireworks of a life on the edge. The cold-steel feel against my palm. But it was 1955 and the twinge of nostalgia was just that––a twinge. Horvath Blatsmore and I wave a mental goodbye in the Woolworth’s parking lot. </span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">When the phone rings again minutes later, I pick it up. “Crane here.” I can hear someone breathing. “Crane here,” I repeat, then do a little breathing of my own as I inhale and exhale on my seventh Chesterfield of the new day. </span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I keep the phone plastered at my ear. If a private eye is anything, he’s patient. I hang in and wait. I light another from a nearly empty pack when I hear a voice soft as morning fog say, “I didn’t kill my husband.” </span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“Ava Dell,” I say without a question mark, like we’re old school chums from Hackensack High. </span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Now Booth’s widow sniffles back tears. Patience, Crane. Patience. Finally, in spurts and pauses, she lets it all out. “Mr. Crane, I know my husband hired you to track me down. He said if I ever ran off…Mr. Crane, my husband was a dreadful man!” Pause. </span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“Dreadful how?” I say, yanking us free of silence. </span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“Oh, he had money. Rockefeller? Walter could buy and sell ten Rockefellers! But I never saw a Mercury-dime of it. He paid me in black-and-blue. Bruises. All over me except where neighbors could see and wonder. Longer pause. “But they’ll fade. Someday.” </span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The gumshoe in me flashes “MOTIVE” in huge neon lights. Ava gets rid of Walter. No more beatings. Goodbye fear. A pocketbook the size of Fort Knox to help her forget. </span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Jump in, Crane. The water’s fine. </span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“Okay, you leave him. He hires me to find you and bring you back home. No luck there. Instead, you find me. Is that right, Mrs. Booth?” </span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Silence. Maybe Ava nods. </span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“Now the blue boys want answers. Who put the bullet in Booth’s head? Who was most likely to gain from a Booth stone-cold dead? Now I pause, then add, “Afraid that’d be you, Ava Dell.” </span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I return the dead receiver to its cradle. Case closed. Now Hawkins at the precinct can work his investigative magic, track down the elusive widow with a gun and give justice its due. </span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">What the hell… Another round of rings. This time I wait for Mrs. Booth or Hotcakes or Hawkins to lead off. A little silence from me. </span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“Mr. Crane?” </span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“Don’t hang up on me again, Mrs. Booth. Where are you?” In my head I’ve been asking that question for a week now. “Where are you, Ava Dell? Make it easy for yourself.” </span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Outside my flat the morning sun pokes its yellow in between the blinds. The Irish fruit-and-vegetable vendor stands beside his truck and greets the new day with a hollering roll- call brogue of the new day’s specials. “Watermelons, peaches, Concord grapes, potatoes.” </span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“He was having an affair,” Mrs. Booth says, twice sidestepping my question of her whereabouts. “A big-eyed blond who wanted all his money.” </span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“How’s that?” </span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“I was hiding from Walter, but from her too. Me, dead, she marries him. Then Walter, dead, she gets it all.” </span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I’m confused. Booth paid me $40 G’s to find her. Why? So he can kill her? </span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“He wanted you back,” I tell her. “Could it be he loved you? I mean he paid me a bundle to…” </span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Ava Dell practically growls out, “They wanted me dead!” </span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“So why was your husband murdered? What you’re saying don’t make sense. Only you as his widow stood to rake in his millions. No contracts out there to say different. Come up with a scenario I can believe in.” </span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Ava Dell isn’t done. Now the two of us are puffing cigs into our mouthpieces. And speaking of mouthpieces, this dame was gonna need a damn good one. </span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“Maybe Walter missed beating up women,” Ava says. “Maybe his new punching bag wasn’t up to taking it, money or not.” </span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I scratch my forehead again. Lame-brain Crane. Where the hell was Hawkins? </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">We stop the chit-chat this time with quick goodbyes. </span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The phone’s gonna ring again, I convince myself. I frown and smile when it does. </span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“Crane.” </span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“Hawkins.” </span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“Yeah, I got the news already. Big Bucks Booth’s dead. The widow’s been calling me a few times since five this morning. We shot the bull. Says she ain’t the gun.” </span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“She’s not. We got witnesses. How easy this gonna be, Crane? </span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">So Ava Dell was on the up and up. Brooklyn’s 66th Precinct wonder boy Burt Hawkins cleared her. He had the real deal down at headquarters. </span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“Who?” </span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“The killer?” Hawkins asks. </span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I nod. </span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">“Booth’s new squeeze. Big-busted blond named Chrissy Lincoln.” </span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Crap this crazy never happened at Woolworth‘s. First the Dodgers upset the odds and take the Series from New York. Then my phone makes a play for most phone calls on a single Thursday in October for the Guinness Book of Records 1955. Now for the crowning kabosh: Lincoln shoots Booth! What the hell was next? </span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">At last a quiet moment. A Chesterfield clamped between my lips, I think of the Bahamas. Bronze beauties strutting their assets on the hot sand. I think, “Crane, Private Eye” stenciled on the glass door of my new triple-sized office. </span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I tap the butt of my .38 Special sitting snug in my shoulder holster. It’s there to save my life. Then I reach into my side jacket pocket and run my fingers over my bank book, more than $40 Grand fat, and visions of sugarplums dance in my head.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_jtw3XdBZF-c8afs-vVxXzcXChwTR2JH4rhwA8EOJot18Am9DsPAoSXmj_tW7oHokaYlKZWZoYkbE7Lc7rJgfvRNIvRzgL5ijwowwfwIhTF7cX1MEvkK599ZeULZQ8lB4irrvTF6H9KE/s1600/Sal+Buttaci+and+Sharon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_jtw3XdBZF-c8afs-vVxXzcXChwTR2JH4rhwA8EOJot18Am9DsPAoSXmj_tW7oHokaYlKZWZoYkbE7Lc7rJgfvRNIvRzgL5ijwowwfwIhTF7cX1MEvkK599ZeULZQ8lB4irrvTF6H9KE/s1600/Sal+Buttaci+and+Sharon.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Salvatore Amico M. Buttaci is a retired English teacher who has been writing since childhood. By his own jovial admission, Sal's an obsessive-compulsive writer, whose work continues to proliferate widely. His first published work, an essay entitled “Presidential Timber,” appeared in the Sunday <i>New York News</i> when he was sixteen. Since then his poems, letters, short stories, and articles have been widely published in <i>The New York Times, Newsday, U.S.A. Today, The Writer, Writer's Digest, The National Enquirer, Christian Science Monitor, Cats Magazine, Thinking Ten, Pen 10, Six Sentences</i> and elsewhere in America and overseas. </span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /><b>Buttaci</b> is the former editor of <i>New Worlds Unlimited,</i> and of <i>Poetidings</i>, the newsletter of the New Jersey Poetry Society, Inc. Along those stanzas, Sal was the 2007 recipient of the $500 Cyber-Wit Poetry Award. He has lectured on Sicilian-American pride and conducts poetry workshops and readings. I salute Sal heartily as the finest 'Godfather of Authors' aboard the soon sailing <b><span style="color: #073763;">HARBINGER*33</span></b>, manifesting destinies. His spirit and encouragement is the stuff of legends and laughter. One can see the twinkle in Sal's eye come through just in how he scribes a note your way. Inspirationally, romantically and oh so enjoyably, our bountiful Buttaci lives in West Virginia with his sweetheart of a wife, Sharon.</span><br />
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<b>In 2001, Pudding House Publications included his work in the Greatest Hits Series with his chapbook,<i> </i></b><b><i>Greatest Hits: 1970-2000. </i></b><b>Buttaci's book, <i>A Family of Sicilians</i> … is available, where else? </b></div>
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<b>At the ever enterprising <a href="http://www.lulu.com/ButtaciPublishing2008">Buttaci Publishing</a>.</b></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Ciao,<b> grazie mille </b>Salvatore!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>Ti voglio bene ~</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>I'd come down from New York to Chicago</b> some weeks back. I had a score to settle with a certain thug. Not that he'd know me from a rotten apple. But I certainly knew him. He'd kicked in the face of my kid brother just because he didn't like his tone. Yeah, you could say I had a score to settle, but it wouldn't be easy. I swigged back my whiskey. It was the good stuff, sometimes hard to find in these Prohibition times. But the mobsters had it made, their clubs could supply it if you had the dough. Sharp prices but well, a fella's gotta drink hasn't he. I tapped out a cigarette and lit it. The waitress, as they liked to be known, a blond with large peaches, small hips and ruby red lips, hovered at my table. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">"Can I get you anything honey?" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I took a drag on my butt and blew out a cloud of smoke as I eyed her up; had I time, was she worth it? Nah, I didn't need the distraction. "Just bring me a bottle of the good stuff doll." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">She leaned down low, those peaches round smooth, heaved rhythmically with her breathing, and whispered in my ear, "Are you sure I can't offer you anything else?" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">"Nice, but not now, just bring me the drink, maybe later." I slapped her on the rump, and she giggled as she walked away. These broads, read 'em like a book. The band in the corner were playing a Louis Armstrong number -- jazz was it right now and the Chocolate & Cream Club was one of the best known on the North side of Chicago. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The waitress came back carrying a bottle and a fresh glass. "Here's your drink big boy." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> I threw some sugar on the table, she picked up the bills, pouted those full lips, winked and wiggled off back in the direction of the bar. Hookers . . . I lit another cigarette and poured myself another shot. I pushed the clean glass to one side while I waited for my meet to arrive. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I figured the only way I was going to get near my target was to join up with the mob. I tried to get into Capone's circle. That was where I really wanted to be, but Scarface was not easy to reach. I poured another shot and tossed it back. The heat hit my throat, so smooth, warm as it slid down. I clenched my teeth as I thought about Capone, stubbed out my butt and immediately lit up another. I'd heard that Al was worth around sixty million clams, made rich by the blood of others. Fucking Italian. The great Capone, the czar of Chicago, a finger in every pie; gambling, prostitution, bootlegging and still trying to take over everyone else, spreading like a cancer out of control. I never got a foot in the door, so my next choice had to be his rival Bugs Moran. The Irish might be tough but they were ready to recruit if they liked the look of you, and they liked the look of me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> I filled my glass again, checked my watch. Where is that sonofabitch? He's half an hour late already. Another ho stopped by; thin dress wrapped around her ample body, sheer enough to see through, tits worse for wear. "Buy me a drink honey? I can be nice." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I threw a bill in her direction, "Get lost doll." I'd need more than a bottle of this whiskey before I'd let her be nice to me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">"Screw you." She took the bill and wandered off. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Any other time I would have slapped her big mouth, but I didn't need the attention on me, not now, not till I had this job down. I spotted Moran's man coming across the room. I could tell who he was by his threads. He looked the cat's meow, with his two toned spats and silk suit. Fucking Irish, who are they kidding. He arrived at my table, pulled out a chair and sat down. I held the bottle of whiskey and nodded towards him, "Drink?" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">"Sure." He pulled out a silver cigarette case, opened it and slipped a coffin nail between his lips, then snapped the case shut and placed it back in his pocket. I struck a match and held it out to him. He bent forward and sucked hard on his cigarette. Leaning back he blew out a stream of smoke and said, "Pour that fucking whiskey." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I did as he said and pushed the glass his way. He picked it up and swilled it down then pushed it back at me. I filled it again, slid it over to him, and poured myself one. I lit up another butt and leaned back in my chair. You have to show these thugs that you're not scared, if you can't do that, you're dead. I took a long slow drag on my cigarette as I waited for him to speak. He stared back at me. Maybe he was trying to see if I would falter in some way. Like I said, fucking Irish. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">He picked up his drink, swallowed it in one go and wiped the back of his hand across his mouth. "I'm Danny, but most know me as The Doctor on account of this 'ere." He reached down to his belt and pulled out a double bladed knife with a long brass handle. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">"Nice." I carried on smoking. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">"I'm showing you this, so you know that if you cross Bugs I'll be paying you a visit." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">"I'll be sure to remember that." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">"Let's get down to the business then. This is how it plays out. Tonight Capone is transporting a truck load of hooch. Bugs wants you and two others to hijack it. Capone uses drivers that don't carry, so the whole thing should be duck soup." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">"Sounds like a piece of cake." I held his stare. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">"The driver and the others are to be chilled, you understand?" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">"Sure bump 'em off. I got it." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">"I got a .38." I tapped my hip. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">"The other two will have shot guns, maybe you should have one too." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">"I prefer my 38." I screwed my cigarette into the tin ashtray and picked up my glass. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">"O'Reilly and Doyle will pick you up outside here in another hour. You get this right and you're in. I'll be in touch." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">"Oh I'll get it right, all right." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">He held out his glass for another refill, I topped up both glasses. We nodded and downed our drinks. Then he pushed back the chair and strode out of the club. I had an hour to kill, I looked around for the blond, and signalled her over. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">"One hundred bucks." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">An hour later standing outside, I waited for Moran's men. I didn't have to wait long. They pulled up in a Lincoln. I jumped in and the car sped off. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">We traveled the rest of the way in silence. The car drove off the road and pulled in among the trees. It was nearly midnight. O'Reilly and Doyle jumped out. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">"Come on, we have to pull a log out into the road. How else will we get them to stop?" O'Reilly gestured with his head that I should follow. Together the three of us pulled out a fair sized log and laid it across the road. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">"Sure." I took out my .38 and waved it at him. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">"Hands up. You others get out of the cab if you know what's good for you." Doyle waved his shot gun at them. They scrambled down, hands raised. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">"You know who this shipment belongs to? You'd be crazy to take it." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">"I said shut it. Capone won't know what hit him. But we can't leave no witnesses." O'Reilly's finger twitched on the trigger. I could see he was anxious to blow 'em away." </span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">"Now Helen, our good Miss Kate absolutely asked you a few questions a few weeks ago. My notes are crisp. My notes are cool. Your answers though - they show you're nobody's fool."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: magenta; font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;">HH</span><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span></b></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="color: #222222;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i style="color: purple;">Wait</i><span style="color: purple;">, you may be gorgeous and take my breath away, but Cary, Cary, </span><i style="color: purple;">Cary</i><span style="color: purple;">, if Kate has absolutely not shared us anything in promotional flair, it's to grab the gusto of a shameless plug when the spotlights are dancin' all over our glimmery</span><b> <span style="color: #bf9000;">Opening Nights *</span></b></span><b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">AT THE BIJOU</span><span style="color: #bf9000;">*</span></b><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">. My brain is working again, I want the folks I've been sitting with in our rowdy Noir audience to have a handy link to my writing blog ~</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><a href="http://helen-scribbles.com/" style="background-color: magenta; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">helen-scribbles</span></b></a><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> . . . where I share snippets of my writings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large; text-align: left;"><b style="background-color: blue;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;">CG</span><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span></b></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #222222;"> </span></span><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">"Ah, that's the old redhead, no bitterness, no recrimination, just a good swift left to the jaw. So Helen, what's the best holiday gift you ever received?"</span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">"What a ridiculous way to start a day. Well, I hope it doesn't get any worse. Just pulling your leg Helen. Our Absolutely*Kate dared me to sneak in as many of my good lines as I could whenever you waxed eloquent. I'm holding up just dapper, don't you think? What, where or how does one gift dazzlin' HELEN HOWELL Writings for greater happiness in a world that certainly needs it?" </span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>"Holy hot shot, Helen, I couldn't have put better words into Cary's spontaneous scripting if I tried. I'm smiling though. I can still remember you sneakin' back stage and tellin' me you'd have jitters comin' up on stage with all our regulars and other roustabout ringers. Darlin' tough broad. You wrote quite a tale for us all . . . AND showed your savvy in cinematic acclaim with any ol' movie star who walks in the BIJOU door. Harry though is a little miffed. Seems Cary took Harry's favorite chair. The next ruckus you hear could be testosterone . . . "</b></span></div>
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<br /></div>Kate Pilarcik ~ absolutelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12430278736281847787noreply@blogger.com36tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6243178661707887834.post-50677232070287973522012-01-02T21:18:00.000-05:002012-01-03T17:31:25.829-05:00New*Year NEW NOIR ~ AT THE BIJOU presents ~ HARD LANDING, a Steven Miscandlon Debut<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><br /><b>I’ve always had a thing about stairs.</b> Part fascination, part fear. I have recurring dreams about broken stairways, about running up stairs, about falling down stairs. So standing here, on the top floor landing of a ten storey apartment building, I guess I’m somewhere between heaven and hell. <br /> <br />I can look over the balustrade here and watch the rhythm — stairway, landing, stairway, landing, stairway — spiral down and down. Shoddy building maintenance means the lights on the bottom five floors are out. And that means when I look down, I see the stairs ultimately descend into darkness, into shadows. <br /> <br />The space in the middle of the building is a pit, an abyss, a well. Not the kind of well you draw water up from, but the kind you fall down into. The kind you might push someone into. Nietzsche said something about looking into the abyss, that it looks back at you. I disagree. I think it’s more likely that you’ll fall in. Or that someone will push you in. <br /> <br />I flick my cigarette over the side, watch the still glowing tip tumble down into the darkness. A wisp of smoke lingers in the air, like a bitter memory. Anyone watching that casual action would see a cool, calm demeanour. A stone cold killer, ice in his veins.But it’s not like that, not on the inside. Nerves of steel? Sure, but only if that steel is a badly tuned guitar string, plucked and still resonating its greasy, uneasy tone. <br /> <br />My nerves are shredded, my stomach in knots. Because the reality is, if you’ve just killed a man, that’s how you feel. It might not show on the surface, but underneath it churns. I can see the look on his face, still — not fear, not exactly. More … surprise. Yeah, that’s it. Surprise that I was pushing him over a tenth floor balustrade into the abyss. Like, despite the fact that I’d chased him up here, he still hadn’t known what was coming. Hadn’t expected me to knock away his hands as he’d grasped frantically at my lapels in a desperate attempt to cling onto dear life. Too late, buddy. Too late. <br /> <br />The situation was what it was, and I am what I am. So many things I could have been. A mob boss, a cop, a two-bit hood. Hell, some would even say I coulda been a contender. But of all those things, of all those cards that the trickster had laid out face down in front of me, I’d chosen… Well, that’s another story for another time. Whichever card I’d flipped over, it was always going to be the ace of spades. <br /> <br />Anyway, time to get out of here. Before the boys in blue arrive. Someone’s going to have one hell of a mess to clean up. I pull my collar up, strike and touch a match to a fresh smoke, and start down the stairs. Down into the darkness. <span style="color: #666666;"><b>Into the shadows.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">once he hit over a quarter-of-a-million rave reviews.</span><br />
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<b><br /><span style="font-size: large;">A</span><span style="font-size: small;">s author, photographer and book-cover designer</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Steven is memorable past mood. He evokes.</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I guess I'll show my soft side here and say that the festive season is really about spending time with the people you care about. I don't think you can beat just chilling out with your partner or family or friends — best gift there is. Though having said that, last year my brothers gave me a Hapkido DVD signed by Carter Wong. Most people won't have a clue who that is, but trust me, he's fucking cool.</span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #073763; color: white; font-size: x-large;">S.M.</span></b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> <span style="color: #073763;">You'll be lucky. With the exception of my story 'Frigid Air' (which was featured at <b>Thrillers Killers 'n' Chillers</b>, and included as a bonus story in Julie Morrigan's <b>'The Writing on the Wall'</b> horror collection) the bulk of my published writing pretty much dates back to pre-Internet days. So unless you manage to track down a 17-year-old copy of <i>West Coast Magazine</i>, or <i>The Gothic Society Grimoire</i>, or my short story anthology <b>'Forever Lost'</b>, then you'll just have to wait until I write some more stuff. Maybe</span><span style="color: #bf9000;"> this</span><span style="color: #073763;"> year.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">“So we beat on, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>~ Literary Hero of Absolutely*Kate, F. Scott Fitzgerald</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>billowing souls . . . as souls should be billowed</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">our best futures.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"> from the best </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">The shimmery <b>shadows of</b> <b>N<span style="color: #bf9000;">O</span>IR</b>,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large;">~ My Mom and Dad,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">reunited </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">in their celestials</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large;">I love you guys!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #bf9000;"><b>Grace o'my thanks</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"> for how your superb <b>collaborations </b></span><span style="font-size: x-large;">and how <span style="color: #bf9000;"><b>authors-taking-authors</b></span></span><span style="color: #bf9000; font-size: x-large;"><b> the higher </b></span><span style="font-size: x-large;">soars </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><img src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/B68" /><b style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-large;">AT THE BIJOU</b><img src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/B68" /></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">See you in the brave and brazen New*Year </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">with </span><b style="font-size: xx-large;"><span style="color: #990000;">Jump*Jivin' JANUARY</span> N<span style="color: #bf9000;">O</span>IR </b></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">to cheer!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: x-large;">~ e'er your pal,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: x-large;">with auld lang syne ~ </span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: x-large;">we'll take a cup o'kindness then, eh?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: x-large;">~ Absolutely*Kate</span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-size: large;">Believing in Believers</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div>Kate Pilarcik ~ absolutelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12430278736281847787noreply@blogger.com8