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\chapauth{Orgasmo}
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\chapter{Make My Day}
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The telephone rings. The cacophony breaks through the utter silence
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of my New York flat overlooking Times Square.
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I can barely move. Even breathing hurts. These late night bar
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fights are getting rougher each night and one of these nights
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I'm going to wake up at a hospital instead of my warm
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bed.
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I recalled earlier events. I was at a bar doing some recon on a
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street gang by the name of the Dark Hawks, a gang of murderous
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thieves. Their leader tried to make off with Lori's handbag
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before I intervened. I grabbed the large man before he could make
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off with it.
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``What is your name, villain?!''
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``The name is Brickwall. Let me show you why.'' All of a
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sudden I was thrown through a brick wall. Through the rubble I
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grabbed a sleek, unyielding object and showed him the business end
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of my pool cue, cracking him and his four goons out cold. These bar
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fights are often brutal. But I always win. My name is Luke
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Bavarious.
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The phone rings again. I let it go to voicemails.
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My rippling muscles ached as I turn over to address the device that
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is emitting the noise.
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The caller ID showed that it was Marty. Who left the message. I hit
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play.
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``Luke, listen, I don't have much time. I'm down
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here in the South Street Seaport and shit's about to go
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dow-``
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Click. The line went into an eerie quiet like a tombstone. He
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sounded frantic. Perhaps I should have taken his call.
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I got up, careful to not wake up Lori, and headed to the restroom.
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I take a rough inventory of the various bleeding cuts and bruises
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Brickwall had incurred upon me the night before.
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Back in the room, I grabbed my Beretta from the nightstand. The
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sleek black metal filled my hand and I felt its power coursing
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through my veins. I cocked the hammer and chambered a bullet. Who
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knows what evil darkness will be faced.
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I set out into the dark and macabre night. I turned on my Walkman
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and played the same song I listen to before I embark on all my
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dangerous missions. I howled into the night:
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\begin{quote}
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Pump up the jam \\
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Pump it up \\
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A pump it up - yo pump it
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Pump up the jam \\
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Pump it up \\
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A pump it up - yo pump it
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I don't want \\
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A place to stay \\
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Get --- your booty --- on the floor tonight \\
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Make my day
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I don't want \\
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A place to stay \\
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Get --- your booty --- on the floor tonight \\
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Make my ---
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\end{quote}
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A kid stepped out onto the path. His clothes were in tatters and he
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smelled like an outhouse. Snot ran profusely down his nose and he
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slurped it with his tongue.
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''Sir, please don't go out to the docks. I foresee something
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terrible happening.``
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''Beat it, kid." I glared down at the rapscallion and pushed him
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aside. He lost his balance and fell backwards into an open manhole
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cover. His yelp was cut off when he landed on a mangled shopping
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cart that lay at the bottom of the sewer and blood flew out of the
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open manhole, landing all over Bavarious. The noxious mixture of
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blood, snot, and the liquefied shit of the entire Lower East Side
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sewer system covered my face and I vomited back into the sewer. I
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lost control of all bodily function and for several minutes vomit
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came out of my mouth and shit came out of my ass. Everytime I
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turned around I resembled a human sprinkler of shit and vomit. With
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the help of a lemon-scented wipee I regained my composure after
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this unexpected ordeal and continued on my way.
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At the Seaport, an eerie quiet abounded. One boat had some lights
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on but it was offshore. I rappelled down the Brooklyn Bridge and
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back-flipped onto the deck. I lay there crouched for a few minutes, my
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duster billowing in the wind, eyes scanning the deck for
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movement.
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I maneuvered towards one of the lit ports. Inside, several thugs
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were playing poker. The guy nearest me had a deuce and a seven
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off-suit. ``I'm all in,'' he growled.
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I announced, to their shock, ``and I'm all
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out{\ldots}'' and proceeded to open fire into the room,
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spraying metal and lead into their shocked bodies. My Beretta rang
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into the still night.
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``{\ldots}of bullets.''
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The scene before me was of utter horror. Dead or dying men lay
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everywhere. Where chips used to be, brains now covered the table.
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One man was choking as rust-colored blood sprayed intermittently
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out of his neck. He looked at me in a shocked way and giggled. This
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grotesque scene played out for a few minutes. Suddenly, he was
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dead.
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After the carnal scene was complete, I made my way down the stairs
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stepping with my feet sideways like a ninja would take a flight of
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stairs. I grabbed the sides of my duster so as to not give away my
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whereabouts.
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In the darkness, a hand gripped down upon my shoulder. Suddenly, I
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was thrown through a brick wall and blacked out. The last thing I
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heard was a terrible laugh that sounded like a burp.
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When I awoke Marty was standing over me with a sneer. ``You
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stupid son of a bitch. Did you think I'd really turn
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informant? You've pissed off a lot of people, Bavarious. A
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lot of people who wouldn't be sad if you took a long drink in
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the Hudson.''
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I tried to move but was stuck. My feet were incased in
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cement.
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``Ok, Brick, drop `im.''
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With a sneer, the large man behind him pulled a lever and the floor
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opened up beneath me. The cold water shocked me as I hurtled to the
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bottom of the riverbed. When I finally hit bottom the force was so
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large that my cellphone flipped open and accidentally called
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Lori.
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Back in the flat, Lori groggily picked up her cellphone in the
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darkness.
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``hello..?''
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``{\bf Muglarhghargh}''
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``I'm sorry?''
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``{\bf Rhugluglrah}''
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Click.
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When her phone rang again, she let it go to voicemails.
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