The drifter stacked the trash from the garbage can on the last house on the street atop the ungual piece of hickory from the nearby woods and struck a match.
Marco was a hard man. Not a magician, but he could make someone disappear. But his real specialty was rearranging them, as necessary to get the information he wanted. Confessions, location, other secrets requested by his unsavory bosses. Still, he appreciated the finer things. Vain as a cheer captain. Acted like it was bad luck to pass, not break, a mirror. Never missed his weekly mani-pedi. There it dawned on him the commonality he shared with their business, telling the confused nail tech, “We are in similar trades, different branches of the ungual tree. You’re in decoration, I’m in extraction.”
The drifter stacked the trash from the garbage can on the last house on the street atop the ungual piece of hickory from the nearby woods and struck a match.
One sentence story! Nice.
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Marco was a hard man. Not a magician, but he could make someone disappear. But his real specialty was rearranging them, as necessary to get the information he wanted. Confessions, location, other secrets requested by his unsavory bosses. Still, he appreciated the finer things. Vain as a cheer captain. Acted like it was bad luck to pass, not break, a mirror. Never missed his weekly mani-pedi. There it dawned on him the commonality he shared with their business, telling the confused nail tech, “We are in similar trades, different branches of the ungual tree. You’re in decoration, I’m in extraction.”
I like how menacing this feels.
Thanks. Not a lot of options for what you can do to a nail lol
Using a different form of the word I’ve known for years… herds of large ungulates cause traffic jams in Yellowstone Park.
LOL That they do!