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May 18, 2016

The Decadent West

Max clicked off his cell phone and watched as the scramble app closed.
He then took his San Pellegrino to his room’s double window. The Spanish Steps and Via Condotti spread out before him. The good life, the decadent West. People were doing the same thing in Paris a few nights ago. No one had a gun, not even the police. He and Chris had had access to all of the video. He thought he recognized one of the bodies on the floor of the concert hall. A neighbor’s daughter from when he lived in Paris in the late eighties. She was three then. She had a heart-shaped birthmark on the back of her right hand. There it was on the closeup. Her head was blown away, but how many women had heart-shaped birthmarks on their hands? | Blogging About Books And Life

Posted by gerardvanderleun at May 18, 2016 9:35 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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