Brides of Blood
“Darius parked in the shallows close to the former British embassy whose brick walls were blackboards of revolutionary rhetoric.
THE SPIRIT OF ALLAH HAS COMMANDED: ANY COMPROMISE IS TREASON TO SLAY AND BE SLAIN FOR ALLAH: THAT IS THE EDICT OF RUHOLLAH The sidewalks were empty, the flooded gutter devoid of traffic. Darius walked slowly, playing the rare midtown quiet against his nerves. At Bobby Sands Street he took a running start across the gorge. His shoes squished as he let himself inside a w...alled garden on the corner.
A cement blockhouse set in a jungle of azalea and jasmine was guarded by a Komitehman with an Uzi. Darius said, “Police,” and waited to be asked to produce identification. The Komitehman lowered his gun. He went to a lawn chair under a tattered Cinzano umbrella, and turned up a sermon on a portable radio.
The mist from a revolving lawn sprinkler broke the sunlight into pocket rainbows. Above a plastic wading pool a swing creaked in the breeze. The door was opened by a boy of no more than eight wearing a felt cap that budded in fuzzy mouse ears.MoreLess
THE SPIRIT OF ALLAH HAS COMMANDED: ANY COMPROMISE IS TREASON TO SLAY AND BE SLAIN FOR ALLAH: THAT IS THE EDICT OF RUHOLLAH The sidewalks were empty, the flooded gutter devoid of traffic. Darius walked slowly, playing the rare midtown quiet against his nerves. At Bobby Sands Street he took a running start across the gorge. His shoes squished as he let himself inside a w...alled garden on the corner.
A cement blockhouse set in a jungle of azalea and jasmine was guarded by a Komitehman with an Uzi. Darius said, “Police,” and waited to be asked to produce identification. The Komitehman lowered his gun. He went to a lawn chair under a tattered Cinzano umbrella, and turned up a sermon on a portable radio.
The mist from a revolving lawn sprinkler broke the sunlight into pocket rainbows. Above a plastic wading pool a swing creaked in the breeze. The door was opened by a boy of no more than eight wearing a felt cap that budded in fuzzy mouse ears.MoreLess
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