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In the wrong hands, it can be the undoing of us all
By RAY DREYFACK
of TheColumnists.com
Having broken up
with his latest paramour, Darman had a sudden urge to call his
old girlfriend. He hadn’t talked to her in months. Maybe
he could get something going again.
“Hello.”
Her husband’s garage door voice gave
him the shivers. Darman soundlessly hung up the phone.
Three hours later his chimes sounded. Darman answered the door.
A tall man in a dark suit with a face that looked like reheated
prunes confronted him.
“George Darman?”
“That’s right. What can I do for you?”
Pruneface shot him twice in the head.
“Shit,” Darman thought on his way to oblivion. The
possibility the old girlfriend might have Caller I.D. had never
occurred to him.
©2005 by Ray Dreyfack.
The illustration is taken from a drawing by Jim Hummel. All rights
reserved by Hummel. This story first posted Dec. 5, 2005.
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