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Submitted to Contest #272
It was Jack Towne’s first day on the job, so to speak, and he was understandably a little nervous. He had very little detail to go on. That was routine, he was told.Gabriel had said that nervousness was normal for a spirit in transition, as he called Jack who agreed it sounded much classier than ghost. That word in Jack’s mind conjured up a rather confused image somewhere between Patrick Swayze and a number of other cinemaland permutations. Gabriel conceded Swayze did a good job with the material he was given. But he...
Submitted to Contest #269
Maria Sozzo paid five hundred dollars for the head of the man who had killed her son.Hector was nineteen when he was shot in the back of the head with a large caliber pistol during a drug deal gone bad.In the cold, dehumanizing florescence of the coroner’s morgue, Maria identified her son’s body by the birthmark on his right shoulder and the puckered white-pink scar that ran halfway down his left side. He had burned himself playing with fireworks when he was eleven. ‘He always was a careless boy,’ she said to no one in particular, ...
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