Chapter 75

“Liar!” shouted the first Blondella.

“Bitch!” shouted the second, the faces in the crowd moving from one to the other and back again, like a good—or perhaps bad, as in very bad—tennis volley.

The first Blondella, the unfortunately real one, paused, grinned and then responded by lifting her hand up into the air. In it she held a pistol, the same pearl-inlayed one she held in the mural, the one every islander recognized all too well. She fired it, the sound exploding all around us. “Yeah, I am a bitch. Too bad for you.”

And amen to that.

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