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believe he would never rise
chuckled. The glasses clinked. Each man
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took a long drink. When they lowered
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their glasses, Lionel knuckled the corner
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of his eye and turned his head away.
always been strong, so strong.
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He was the only one to drink. Martin's Nilufer raised her eyes to his. It
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forehead wrinkled, and his mustache was not what women did to
popped out a bit as he pursed his lips. men, but she was a princess,
"What's the black dog? I thought Ralph and he was only a bandit. "I
shot himself." want to be a Witch," she said.
"A Witch and not a Queen. I
"Hell with that," Lionel said. "He was
wish to be not loved, but wise.
murdered."
Tell your bandit lord, if he can
give me that, I might accept his
There was a long pause. Lionel
gift."
swallowed half his bourbon in one
continuous gulp. He kept his hair cut in a
military buzz and ironed his polo shirts. Archived Fiction Dating back to
His voice always seemed on the edge of 9/1/00
yelling. Jim asked him, low and even,
"Why do you say that?"

"'Cause Ralph wouldn't kill himself,"
Lionel said, pounding his forefinger on the
formica tabletop. "He just wouldn't!"