"He let her do it, then looked around for his fingers. There they were, curled like a bloody quotation mark on the lead. He laughed."

Violence, Irony, Blood, Absurdity

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"He let her do it, then looked around for his fingers. There they were, curled like a bloody quotation mark on the lead. He laughed."

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