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The boy cursed, but in a good-natured, only half-pissed way. ”The rotor reached takeoff speed. Jackie had been pushing him all morning but now she was fixing her gaze outside to ease her headache. Her eyes, once dark blue, were now a faded turquoise, opaque as chalk.

There were five women laid out on the ground, all bloody, one dead. He exits the cab some distance from the safe house and walks the rest of the way, floating in smells both familiar and exotic. The arrogance! It’s beyond preposterous—it’s perverse. ____, “The Dark Man,” Is Anybody Out There?____, “Hollywood Ending,” JBU, April.