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  1. Free multi-format downloads of my first Joe Pitt book, ALREADY DEAD. Details here: http://pulpnoir.com/?p=628
  2. THE END
  3. Driving, she imagines dad proud of what she's done. "Gunplay," He told her, "can solve most fixes. Just don't be shy, and pull the trigger."
  4. She runs the family business now. A shipment will be coming on the river. Need to be broken down and packaged to the street. Fire burns.
  5. Sitting in her car, watching the house burn, she doesn't feel bad at all, buckshot aside. She feels, her brother and mom dead, fearless.
  6. Mom has something to say herself, she dies first. Her daughter looks at the mess. Her plan didn't account for this. Dad hated improvisation.
  7. She looks down at the mean dying woman. -You shouldn't have killed him, mom. You shouldn't have killed him when I wanted to do it so bad.
  8. She puts the dead cop's gun on the table. No need of those other four bullets. As extra to the cause as her second kidney is to herself.
  9. And she shoots her mom in her one good kidney. Gauge goes off, she gets some shot in her neck and shoulder. Hurts like no joke. But alive.
  10. She turns, twin barrels look like she could jam her fists in em. Mom with one hand on the gauge, one on her smoke. The drop, she has it.
  11. Thing about dad, he may have played Russian roulette on his own son, but he was always sweet on his little girl. Never steered her wrong.
  12. And she hears dad's voice: -Don't wait till you can smell the cigarette. Don't wait. Don't till she had two hands on the damn shotgun.
  13. She puts her hand on the dead cop's gun. She hears the snap of her mom's bic lighter behind her, crackle of ignited paper and tobacco.
  14. A gun with five bullets. You can do a lot with that. Just have to have the stones to pick it up. She's got stones, her dad gave em to her.
  15. Mom didn't deserve that. Mom didn't earn that. Mom hasn't earned a thing in her life. Taken a bunch, never earned. Now she's taken this too.
  16. Thing that gets her, looking at the dead cop's gun next to her dead brother, thing that gets her is that mom killed him.
  17. She thinks odds. Five in six. Can't see where the shotgun is pointed. Five in six. Clean out Vegas on that. If they don't shoot you first.
  18. She bends to pick up the pen, half in her brother's blood. Nearby the dead cop's gun. Five bullets in the closed cylinder.
  19. She tries to hold the pen. It slips from tingling fingers. Mom prods her with the shotgun. Still dropping things. Still peeing your pants.
  20. She rubs her wrists together, A little life into her fingers. Mom has papers and pen in one hand, shotgun in the other. -Time to sign.