“yeah, it’s me, Rose, old doubledouble. So much for my toil and trouble. Move over, share that fire with me, you old bastard. Maybe we should just burn this place down?”
“They’d have our heads on pikes, but they’d feed us and keep us warm until they did.”
“I could almost go for that.”
“Still havin’ your fits, [...]
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flicker, the burly woman, young now, not so burly, hair in a red scarf, pushing a shopping cart past the refrigerated meats, the juices, the milks and yogurts and on past the cheeses, teasing the toddler beside her, mindful of the infant in the seat of the cart. flicker, a shopping cart her decorated house [...]
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“I never thought of doing that.” The hobo spun around. The husky voice came from the shadows in the corner. “There’s a fireplace over here but I didn’t know if I could trust the chimney.”
The hobo grunted, weighed the threat and turned back to the fire. In the dark corner a pile of heavy velvet [...]
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