Thursday, January 21, 2010

Varland Story - Chapter 17 - Grimmy

A promotion to assassin is bound to come with some strings attached.




Crap! It's the governor! She's done so much for this town you'd think she'd get to finish out her term and move on up the ladder, but those decisions are way above my pay grade. It would be impolitic even to speculate about mob influence in this realm, so I shan't.

But still, I like her a lot! Crap! She's about as fey as my sweet Deena and I like that in a woman. Not nearly so delicate, though. More of an Iron Lady, in fact.


And a consummate politician to the very last!


Her young cousin wants to follow in her footsteps. What a helluva note for his job interview!


But hey, it's not every politico who gets a monument right on the steps of City Hall.


Who am I kidding? This really, really tears me up!


But whaddya gonna do? It wouldn't be easy to find another job at my age.