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Crim City 6: Cooking a Poison-Laced Meal
Béchamel sauce with battery acid?No nightly news. No intrepid journalists. No embassies, or city council, or Committee of the Red Cross. No airport (although I’m told there are at least three...
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Crim City 7: Umbrella Man Continued
Street dogs of Banki KalgasaIt started to rain. First, scattered gunshot across fat leaves. Then what sounded like an old shop shutter closing, being pulled down endlessly into an abyss; or a vast...
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Crim City 8: Mixing with the Crims
An 18th century engraving of Geertje von Wolff.A taking of a life? A taking of it where? From what? As if the life and the person were separate entities, like taking a battery from a phone, a little...
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Crim City 9: Blam! Blam! Blam!
South Indian film superstar, RajiniKanth.“Down here,” I said to my hired minders, diverting them, turning away from, rebounding off the distant gaze of my magnificent wife. “The car is just down this...
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Crim City 10: A Sniff of the Armpit
Samurai with sword, ca. 1860.I cut-and-paste from my inbox: Respected Sir, Let me introduce ourselfs. We are Mutta Rescue Brigade (MRB) special ops named after late respected senior commander General...
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Crim City 11: A Study of My Wife
View of Dobrinja, Sarajevo.My wife was born in Sarajevo. Six weeks early, very small, a flighty wisp of a child — until her growth spurt, which started young and forceful and coincided to the exact day...
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Crim City 12: The Tunnel
Frida Kahlo, Me and My Parrots (1941)Then an early thaw, a very wet March, and on April 13, 1993, a misshapen man came hobbling into the Demirovic’s apartment with a small box of jewelry he’d secreted...
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“The Ballad of Pip and Poop”
“The Ballad of Pip and Poop” by ZireauxIT’S OFTEN SAID this country’s sense of self was forged out of the furnace of war. If the same can be said about an individual, then I’d suggest no conflict is...
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The Secret Pilot: H.G. Wells and “The Time Machine”
From the George Pal film of 'The Time Machine.' Let's erase this from our minds.Let’s begin by erasing the distracting markings on the blackboard from previous discourses on “The Time Machine” –...
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“And a Pen to Steer Her” by Zireaux
Barbara Payton in the movie, Bad Blonde.A single blank sheet of paper slides across the table to me. Just one sheet. Just enough to satisfy the Statement’s only expression of generosity: Use additional...
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