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Tingle with Unrelenting Bowel Pressure

            “Try to hold it as long as you can,” Colonel Trask pleaded with Brondo.
            “I’m doing my best,” the muscular young man replied, his voice betraying the great strain he was under.
            “The closer we get to the center of the Queen’s syrup containment well—“
            “I know, I know,” Brondo interrupted.  His impatience was equally evident.
            “Did you bring paper?” Irene asked from the back of the atomic-powered cart.
            “I thought it would be appropriate if he wiped with this,” Colonel Trask answered, holding up a long, yellowed document that flapped back into the woman’s face from the force of their great speed.
            “What?” Irene chirped, grabbing the tail of the document and holding it steady.  “What’s this?  The Founders’ Compact?”
            The Colonel grinned in reply, glancing back.
            “This is it,” Brondo groaned.  “No more—I gotta go!”
            “Hold on, we’re almost—“
            “No, now!”  He began undoing his belt.
            Irene stared up at the jeweled roof of the syrup channel as Trask eased off on the accelerator.  He wanted to control the spray as much as possible.  A hundred hours practicing the bootlegger’s turn in the simulator would serve him well…
            Upstairs, in the Queen’s scorched and water-damaged boudoir, Inspector Flegrim tucked his notebook into his coat pocket and turned to one of the uniformed officers.
            “Where’s the bathroom,” he asked.


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