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    I don’t want to kill you, he thought, I just want to get away. I think I’ve wanted to get away for at least 15 years.
    He managed to get out of bed. He took the gun and pointed it at Margaret’s upper thigh, right leg. He fired.
    Margy screamed and he put his hand over her mouth. He waited some minutes and then took his hand away.
    “What are you doing , Theodore?”
    He pointed the gun at Margaret’s upper thigh, left leg. He fired. He stopped her new scream by putting his hand over her mouth again. He held it there some minutes, then took it away.
    “You kissed Lilly,” Margaret said.
    There were two bullets left in the gun. Ted straightened and looked at the holes in his chest. The hole on the right side had stopped bleeding. The hole on the left side spurted a thin needle-like line of red at regular intervals.
    “I’ll kill you!” Margy told him from the bed.
    “You really want to, don’t you?”
    “Yes, yes ! And I will !”
    Ted began to feel dizzy and sick. Where were the cops? Surely they had heard all the gunshots? Where were they? Couldn’t anybody hear gunfire?
    He saw the window. He fired at the window. He was getting weaker. He fell to his knees. He moved on his knees toward another window. He fired again. The bullet made a round hole in the glass but it didn’t shatter. A black shadow passed in front of him. Then it was gone.
    He thought, I’ve got to get this gun out of here!
    Theodore gathered the last of his strength. He threw the gun against the window pane. The glass broke but the gun fell back inside of the house…
     
     
     
    As he became conscious his wife was standing over him. She was actually standing on the two legs he had shot. She was reloading the gun.
    “I’m going to kill you,” she said.
    “Margy, for Christ’s sake, listen! I love you!”
    “ Crawl , you lying dog!”
    “Margy, please….”
    Theodore began to crawl toward another bedroom.
    She followed him. “So, it excited you to kiss Lilly?”
    “No, no! I didn’t like it! I hated it!”
    “I’ll blow those damned kissing lips right off your mouth!”
    “Margy, my god!”
    She put the gun to his mouth.
    “Here’s a kiss for you!”
    She fired. The bullet blew away part of his lower lip and part of his jaw bone. He remained conscious. He saw one of his shoes on the floor. He gathered his strength again and threw the shoe at another window. The glass broke and the shoe fell outside.
    Margaret took the gun and pointed it to her breast. She pulled the trigger…
     
     
     
    When the police broke down the door Margaret was standing and holding the gun.
    “All right, madam, drop the gun!” said one of the cops.
    Theodore was still trying to crawl away. Margaret aimed the gun at him, fired and missed. Then she dropped to the floor in her purple nightgown.
    “What the hell happened?” one of the cops asked, bending over Theodore.
    Theodore turned his head. His mouth was a blob of red.
    “Skirrr,” said Theodore, “skirrr…”
    “I hate these domestic quarrels,” the other cop said. “Real messy …”
    “Yeah,” said the first cop.
    “I had a fight with my wife just this morning. You can never tell.”
    “Skirrr,” said Theodore…
     
     
     
    Lilly was at home looking at an old Marlon Brando movie on television. She was alone. She’d always been in love with Marlon.
    She farted gently. She lifted her robe and began to play with herself.

HOT LADY
     
     
    Monk walked in. It seemed very dusty in there and dimmer than in the usual places. He walked toward the far end of the bar and sat down next to a big blonde who was smoking a cigarillo and drinking a Hamm’s. She farted as Monk sat down. “Good evening,” he said, “my name’s Monk.” “My name’s Mud,” she said, which immediately dated her.
    As Monk sat there a skeleton rose from behind the bar where it had been sitting on a stool. The skeleton walked over to Monk. Monk ordered a scotch on the rocks and the skeleton reached out