Stories tagged “garlic”
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Free Garlic Bread
On the way to my next client, I stop to buy a pizza at Pinocio’s. I search with my hands for my wallet, and then remember I’m low on change. “What will it be?” the owner questions me, eyeing my scythe with raised and crazed eyeb...
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The Sword
“We have need of your sword.” “It’s not for hire to the likes of you,” I said, my gravelly voice even lower than usual; a rattlesnake’s warning of its displeasure. I couldn’t imagine being stuck around the stin...