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Friday Night At Paco’s Crackhouse

ton.jpgMaria continued to smoke, alone. A cockroach, brazen and the size of a small mouse crawled up her arm and regarded the room from there, its antennae waving softly as if stirred by a summer breeze. Maria did not move nor acknowledge it. Then the roach scuttled away, breaking across the floor and perching on top of the television. From here it surveyed the room.

By Tony O’Neill.

The Funnies

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