Sunday, December 21, 2008

Rivera Flower Seller

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merely for sport, and had buried her deep in the canyon.Now she was of no use to anyone, and this pointless waste of her exceptional flexibility further infuriated Mick.Lowering the Glock from Trotter’s forehead, Corky said, “Let’s go inside.”“Please, let’s not,” Trotter pleaded.“Need I remind you,” Corky said, lying with delightful her feet. ...That a paranoid, conspiracy-drunk, bank-robbing, drug-peddling survivalist with bolt-holes leading from here to the Canadian border should have a weak spot for fragile porcelains didn’t surprise Corky. Regardless of how rough we may appear on the exterior, each of us has a human heart.Corky himself had a weakness for old Shirley Temple movies, in panache, “that your cooperation with me could earn you erasure from all public records, from all tax records, making you the freest man who ever lived, a man utterly unknown to the government?”“I’ll be there tonight. Seven o’clock sharp. Wind or no wind. I swear I will.”“I still want to go inside,” Corky said. “I still feel the need to make my point with you.”A sadness came into Trotter’s Mad Hatter eyes. His walruslike face drooped.Resigned, he led Corky into the house.The bullet holes in the walls, from the previous occasion when Corky had needed to teach Trotter a lesson, had not been repaired; however, the living-room display shelves had been filled with a new collection of Lladro porcelains—statuettes of ballerinas, princesses dancing with princes, children capering with a dog, a lovely farm maiden feeding a flock of geese gathered at

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