The sword Anne’s holding is also a guitar, and a magic wand.
It’s a sworguitwand.
“We got you surrounded, Moloney!” harshes the cop with the bullhorn. “Come out with your hands up!”
“You’ll arrest me?” Anne shouts back.
“Shit no!” The bullhorn catches the other cops laughing. “We just want an easy target!”
“This is it,” she mutters. “Live by die by, right?”
“Yea,” says Jesus grimly, unholstering his Desert Eagles. “When I was cornered, you gave me to cap.”
“Shit, Jesus.”
“Today I am your vengeance, Anne!”
They blow out the door, fire and bullets, wailing hard on high G.
Dear gentle reader: this blog has been operating continuously since I was a teenager. The writing below is at least a decade old. In that time every molecule of my body has been replaced, along with many foolish ideas and flighty beliefs. I want to keep some of those things public out of an honesty and humility I owe the world. I trust you to carry that context with you.
