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Louis Postel

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The Revenge

1.

 The victim lay flat on his angel which was composed of ultra-violet light .
2.

 What is the best way to here the cabbie said . I have no idea I said . We’d been through this before, driving to other so-called “accidents . "
3.

 The maid was wearing a moldy, yellow seersucker suit and responded to questions . Responded, nothing more . . .
4.


 My right arm began to flap wildly . My brother, standing next to me, with a model of the Flying Cloud in his hand, snickered and said : I’ll do the talking from now on !
5.


 Lawyer Price tore off the victim’s tags and arranged them on the desk, meticulously for fear of displeasing his client and said : you (meaning me ) Go to the end of the Stacks under G and lock up the Aerial Code .
6.



 The maid’s eyes reflected shots of the suburbs from a bird’s eye view whipping past one another . My arm suddenly returned to normal and I obeyed the lawyer , cautiously, as I saw he’d noticed, but failed to comment upon the fact that it had .
7.


 The angel under the victim’s body, an angel entirely of ultra-violet, removed itself from under the victim and came up behind me to look over my shoulder as I read the Aerial Code .

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