Dealings in Chrome Be Scrupulous to the Late Fish
Any respect
shown to Yib-Yib’s wishes wasn’t just a matter of legal obligation: although
technically “dead,” the uniformed fish was very much alive and capable of
raining pellets of Tootsie Roll-flavored lip gloss down on those who displeased
him. The widow Cimino’s Camaro camisole
had already acquired an interesting woman of the world’s appearance hardly as
out-of-tune as such stream-of-consciences would that she kept it that way.
“One more
‘n,’ little man,” she promised Hoagy Dogey, “And I won’t be able to come to bed
without laughing revulsion and borderline violence.”
The mason
said nothing, a trace of triumph imprecisely visible on one side or the other.
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