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Straight Circle is, in fact, the Church of the Crashed and Burned.
This afternoon’s forms are from Global Insurance, whose TV pitchman is Buster the Talking Donkey, with his irritating hee-haw laugh. Buster is on every form, grinning at her with his big (and somehow insolent) teeth.
Holly likes to believe the best of people, and does believe there’s good in just about everyone, but her time at Finders Keepers has also taught her that just about everyone has a shitty streak.
“I hate that donkey.” “What donkey?” “Never mind.”
The streets all have tree names, which is sort of hilarious because few trees grow in the Breeze.
“He falsified the evidence!” Holly exclaims. This kind of trickery always makes her furious. It’s not so different from how some of the insurance companies with whom she does business operate… including the one with the talking donkey.
The Rev bursts out laughing. It reminds Trig of the way the Talking Donkey laughs in those insurance ads: hee-haw, hee-haw. The Rev even has the Talking Donkey’s big teeth.
With a prayer to the God of his understanding,
“Those names were kept quiet, like the names of the jurors in the Trump and Ghislaine Maxwell trials.”
There won’t be room service in hell, only doom service.
Do the Real Christ Holy congregants know where a portion of their considerable tithes are going? Chris doesn’t think so, but he thinks most—not all, but most—would approve if they did.
The girls—Tess, Laverne, and Jem—are now in their seventies.
‘We did what we promised to do, that’s all. Those awful magazines had his fingerprints on them, and besides, if he didn’t do this, he probably did something else.’ ”
No one ever said godless libtards lacked a sense of humor.
“Of course it was,” Holly says. She’s thinking of the donkey with the big teeth. It doesn’t haunt her dreams, at least not yet, but give it time.
It’s not courage she lacks, it’s the fundamental self-worth necessary to call someone out on their hurtful behavior.
Only an insurance company with a spokes-ass named Buster would call people entities.
Sensayuma,
Brady Hartsfield and Morris Bellamy were bad, but the eBayers are somehow worse.
“Fuck it, I’m tired of hiding from a bunch of Handmaid’s Tale propaganda-bots.”
She goes south on I-57, and at Gilman will turn east.
“Yeah, I hate that donkey, all those big teeth.
Kate comes onstage that Tuesday night wearing a Chicago Cubs cap and a White Sox jersey with her name on the back.
“I want to close tonight by asking you to remember the words of John the Apostle. He said, ‘If any man loves the world, the love of God the Father is not in him.’ But theology as practiced by Christian fundamentalists is all about the world. Mixing religion with politics is dangerous. Not the road to Calvary but the one that leads to fascism.”
deeply religious people in every sect or faith can always find justification for what they want to do in one holy book or another.
Don.”
Juror Nine.
Don Gibson.”
Mingo’s Program Director,
“Any abandoned buildings I find will be locked—”
Looks like you’re out of luck. This turns out to be so true, Boo.
Be careful what you wish for.
In his head an earworm awakes and he hears the song by The Who that serves as CSI’s theme.
The Wise Men had a star. Holly, not feeling wise at all, has her Find My app.
On the day Holly and Izzy have their lunch in Dingley Park, on his way back to his room, nothing on his mind but the Baby Ruth in his pocket, Jerry stops outside the door. Someone inside says, low: “Where’d you bury her, Daddy?” Heart beating so hard it thrums in his scrawny neck, Jerry goes into his cubbyhole-sized room. Which is empty. Only the ceramic horse on his desk. Staring at him.
Last but hardly least, here is a list—sadly incomplete—of those supporters of women’s right to choose who have been murdered for doing their duty. Dr. David Gunn, murdered March 10, 1993, in Pensacola, Florida. Dr. John Bayard Britton, murdered July 29, 1994, in Pensacola. Clinic volunteer James H. Barrett, murdered July 29, 1994, in Pensacola. Receptionist Shannon Lowney, murdered December 30, 1994, in Brookline, Massachusetts. Receptionist Leanne Nichols, murdered December 30, 1994, in Brookline. Security guard (and police officer) Robert Sanderson, murdered January 29, 1998, in Birmingham,
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