1. Death Wish
Rendered unconscious by a fall in the bathtub, a president of Russia drowned.
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2. Pleasure and Pain
“I hope they included a patching kit for this,” moaned the man in 1A.
“What a time for my batteries to die,” lamented the woman in 1B.
His right hand in a cast, the man in 1C wished he’d been born left-handed.
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3. Death and Taxes
“I killed you, I buried you, yet here you are, ready to resume auditing me.”
“For the IRS,” he said, “there is only one thing in this world that is certain.”
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4. Philosophy Class Final
He turned over the exam and saw it consisted of a single question: Why?
He wrote, Why not? and turned in the exam.
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5. Good Girl
She buried the boy who had beaten her deeper than any bone she had buried before.
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6. Bad Boy
He had beaten her, then slipped on a stray dog biscuit, breaking his neck.
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7. Period
Finally finishing, he typed The End, then immediately thought of another ending.
Lanning Lee 