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In the summer of eighty four, three teens, a knife
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and a bad idea they call a sacrifice. Ricky swears
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the devil is listening and he's desperate to prove it.
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In the moonlit woods, a corpse sits up for an audience,
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and the bill for fame comes due in blood.
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What's that You want to be scared? Come with me.
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You will experience tales over opera, ghosts and death. It
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is not recommended for a week at art listeners in
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the dark.
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It's more fun in that way way.
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This is Weekly Speaking.
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Hello, my spookies. It's Wednesday, and you know what that means.
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It's time for a little spooky in your weekly. I'm
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your host and narrator, Henrique Kuto, and tonight's story is based,
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though loosely, on a true story, and if you want
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to hear the true story, you can tune in next
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week on Monday for terrifying and true to hear all
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the pertinent and bloody details. But before we get to
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all of that, I want to say thank you all
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so much for listening. I've noticed many of you spookies
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joining up because Halloween is almost here, and on top
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of that, today is my birthday. I'm turning thirty nine
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years old, and this is the first time in six
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years of Weekly Spooky that an episode has dropped on
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the day of my birth So while you're listening to this,
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rest assured that I am eating way too much seafood
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October we have plenty of brand new programming thirty one
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shows in thirty one days. But as for tonight, it
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begins on a sticky June night in nineteen eighty four,
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when a loudmouth kid with a taste for pills decides
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the devil owes him a favor in the Whispering Woods.
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Something answers a promise of power if others will look
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upon what Ricky has done, But some doors, once open,
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do not close. Get cozy. This satanic terror tale starts
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after this what Ricky did on his summer vacation by
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Dan Wilder, June nineteenth, nineteen eighty four. You know what
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we should do, Skullhammer? Come on, Ricky, can't you just
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call me Jimmy or Jay or anything other than that?
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What the fuck ever, James? You chose the name, yeah,
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and now I unchose it. Well, you better come up
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with something. We need to reject those Christian names. I
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think my parents are agnostic. Shut up, James. So as
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I was saying, know what we should do? No, I
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guess I don't. We should offer a sacrifice. Sacrifice yeah,
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to Satan. We need to step things up. I I
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don't know. Man. It was cool to get stoned and
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talk about demons and shit, but killing someone, not someone
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that fucker Gary Gary, Yes, Gary, that ass lips stole
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shit from me and passed that prime product out at
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Carrie's house party free of charge like he was a
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goddamn hero. I mean, free drugs are admittedly a real
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crowd pleaser, but allows the way to run a business,
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and business is necessary because money is the root of
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all evil. I know, bingo, pal. Now, let's call Al
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and get this show on the road. Well, that certainly
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was a letdown, Ricky said, spitting an arrant piece of
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flesh from his blood stained mouth. A letdown. You bit
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pieces of him off, Rick, You'd think that would be
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enough to get his attention. Jimmy, I don't think those
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were micro dots, Albert gurgled, before violently vomiting for the
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third time in as many minutes. Yeah, I'm getting that
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vibe too, Not mescaline, maybe LSD. Ricky pondered, wiping one
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bodily fluid or another from his satanic robes, in truth,
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a cute costume his nana had sewed for him so
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he could play his little role games with his friends.
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Al barfed. In response, crows called out in the distance.
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Hear that, boys, Maybe we got his attention after all.
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Jimmy and Al looked skyward nervously. The crows cawed once again.
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Then Gary coughed seriously Ricky Ricky held Gary's eyes in
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his hands, though the knife he recently dropped made them
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look like a pair of sliced, bloody, hard boiled eggs.
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I panicked. I stabbed him like eighteen times shouldn't that
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have been enough to keep him down, you would think, Jimmy,
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added feebly. Al had stopped blowing chunks and now just
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laid in the fetal position, muttering do you love Satan?
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I love my mother? He he I loved his mother,
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over and over again, a constant parroting of Gary's final words.
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The prior vomiting was preferable. Okay, he's definitely dead this time.
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Come on, Satan, where are the The crow calls rang
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out again. I know you are here, my lord, and
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I hear the song of your unholy murder. Ricky unronically
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yelled to the heavens. They roughly hid Gary's body under
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some leaves and various forest debris type shit and hoofed
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it home. That night, Ricky slept in slumber screamed because
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the devil walked in to his dream. For all his posturing,
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Ricky wasn't prepared for what stood before him. Not that
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he could focus on the being as it was obscured
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by an ever shifting blurry haze. But the thing that
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stood in there was vastly different than a man with
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a goatee in a red suit with horns and a
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pitchfork The horns were definitely there, though long and black
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with tips that ended in deep crimson. Satan spoke the
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Woodland sacrifice. I am pleased. The voice was unearthly and
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echoed back on itself. Thanks, sire, I will allow you
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to speak when I finished. Sorry again, your insolence is
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wearing on my patience. Ricky gulped and almost apologized again,
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but a fleeting glimpse of Lucifer's face in the miasma
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made him mercifully shut his mouth for once. Others, others
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need to be in the presence of the sacrifice. Ricky
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was about to mention the danger of that course of action,
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but a long fingered hand tipped with obsidian nails reached
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from the smear and clamped tight over Ricky's mouth. The
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smell of fresh apples and rotting flesh filled his nose. Others,
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Lucifer intoned once more. Then the power shall be yours,
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along with a tidy prophet. Ricky snapped awake and immediately
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reached for a joint, and with Satan's decree in his mind,
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he thought of those he would find, and with a
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puff of his spliff, he saw dollar signs instead of
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a stiff June twentieth, nineteen eighty four, Ricky stumbled down
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the hall to the kitchen, where his mother greeted him
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with a glass of orange juice and her normal busy
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body nonsense. Ricky sat down, took a pull of juice,
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and began flicking a red twenty sided dye around the table.
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Good morning, honey. Remember I have that meeting at church tonight.
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The reverend is going to talk about that horrible Dungeons
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and Dragons game and its satan influence on the youth.
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I'm so glad you aren't into such business. Uh huh,
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Ricky said, emotionless as he put the dye back into
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the pocket of his jean jacket. I really think you
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should come. Your friends look up to you, so you
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could be a shining example for them. I can't tonight.
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Speaking of friends, one of mine is sick, practically dead
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on his feet, So Jimmy and Al and I are
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going to go keep him company. Ricky's mother's eyes filled
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with tears. You are a saint, Ricky, you know that.
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So proud of the man you're becoming.
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You're not safe yet, weekly Spooky will be right back.
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Ricky met his friends at the convenience store down the block.
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The Terrible Trio managed to lift both a six pack
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of beer and a Hustler mag before they set off
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down the streets of Northport. As Ricky began to detail
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his plans, and he led off with a real corker.
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I talked to Satan last night. The fuck are you
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talking about? Wait, Jimmy, let's hear this out. Ricky's always
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been a straight shooter. I had a dream, and in
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the dream, Satan said he was pleased with what we
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did to Gary, but he said we should show other people.
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Are you fucking kidding me?
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Like?
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Who oh? I know the cops. I'm sure they'll love
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what we mostly you did? Finished, Jimmy nodded grimly. Good. Now,
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I trust Satan to the nth degree. Why would he
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fuck with us his most loyal followers. Ricky punctuated that
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sass with a thousand yard stare at Jimmy, And what
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are we supposed to do? Just take them out there
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and let them look at it?
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That?
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I do not know, But maybe you two can prop
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him up or something. A little showmanship can go a
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long way. Hell, maybe we can have it both ways.
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The idiots I bring may believe Old Gary is still alive.
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While I barter with the beast, how will you get
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the people to come, Ricky? Easy, Al, old chum free
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drugs seems fitting given Gary's antics, Jimmy said, appreciatively poetic even,
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and once I have them there, they can feast their
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eyes on Gary's corpse and you can just say you
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smoked him up on some strong shit to show the
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hatchet is buried. Exacta mundo, my dear Al, exacta fuckin' mundo.
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While Jimmy and Al headed to the woods, Bruce and
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pornomag well in hand, Ricky headed to the arcade. He
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plunked a few quarters into Crystal Castles, which was the
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coolest game one could imagine that starred a glorified Teddy Bear,
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and then he played a few rounds of bally Midway's
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Satan's Hollow, a tried and true favorite that seemed incredibly
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relevant given the current state of events. After that, he
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strolled over to the pizza place next door and ordered
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a fried dough. It was there that he he saw
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Tanya waiting for a slice of sausage and mushroom to
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come out of the oven. Hey, Tanya, Oh, Hey, Ricky,
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what's up. How's summer been going? You know? Rad I guess, yeah, yeah,
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Tanya countered, After you grab that slice, wanna head out
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to the woods and get baked. I don't have any
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cash besides what I paid for the slice. It's on me,
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Ricky said, with a shit eating grin a mile wide Yeah, okay,
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for sure. As Ricky led Tanya into the clearing, it
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was obvious they had indulged in some illicit substance or another,
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but through the fogginess of his brain, Ricky had to
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admit the guys had really pulled it off. Gary sat
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in a lawn chair wearing sunglasses, and while pale as
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all fuck, he didn't look as dead as he was.
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The lingering scent of at least three cans of insect
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repellent wafted from Gary, which both made him smell less
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like a dead man in summer and did a hero's
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job of keeping away pests that most surely would have
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been lining up for a free all you can eat
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rot buffet. Is that Gary? Oh? Why, yes it is.
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I need to talk to him. He owes me five bucks.
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Uh okay, but don't expect much in the way of
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a response, I smoked his ass up sky high earlier.
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Don't you two hate each other? I'm sorry? Is this
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Tanya or Sherlock? Fucking homes? We kissed and made up.
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Go talk to him if you have to, Okay, grumpy
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ass smurf goddamn. Tanya sauntered over to Gary, but most
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of what she said to him was lost to the
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ambient racket of mother nature. The words five bucks were
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heard loudly multiple times. Ricky wondered where Jimmy and al
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had gone off to, but he remembered the six pack
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and Porno mag and smiled as he thought they really
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earned it. He was about to tumble into a chemically
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assisted daydream when he happened to turn his gaze back
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to Tanya. Tanya appeared to be preparing to give Gary
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some sort of epic blowjob. She was on her knees
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and doing extreme jaw exercises with such athletic passion that
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an Olympian would surely be impressed. This sobered Ricky up
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right quick to say the least, whoa, whoa, Tanya? What
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the fuck? Dude? What what do you mean?
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What?
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He looks good? We used to go out and besides
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he wanted it, okay, not today though he wouldn't enjoy
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it anyway, he's too stoned. Tanya stood and looked at Gary. Yeah,
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I guess you're right. I could have sworn I heard
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him whisper. What the hell are you talking about? Whispering?
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You know, quiet talking. I know what whispering is, Tanya.
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Ricky was growing ever more heated, but then he remembered
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the importance of keeping up the ruse and keeping his
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ass out of prison. I mean, he could have said
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anything in this state. What do you think you heard
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him say? He asked me how I felt about giving head?
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Ricky swallowed hard. What did you say? I said, ask
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me when it's over, And that's when you found me.
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Like I said, we went out before. I have to
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admit that is a bold thing to say. Out of
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the blue and all. Tanya could feel herself getting light
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headed again from whatever shit Ricky gave her. She sat
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down on the grass and Ricky joined her, and with
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that she plopped over with her head in Ricky's lap
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and closed her eyes. Before she slipped into slumber, she
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managed to say, in hindsight, I don't think he said
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giving head after all. I think it was more like
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being dead. With that, she began to snore softly, which
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in inspired Ricky's own descent into slumber.