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- From: aaron@space.ualberta.ca (Aaron Humphrey)
- Subject: Forwards
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.224939.5024@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
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- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 22:49:39 GMT
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- Hemant stared across the table into the eyes of his opponent. God, he hated
- playing against women. Men he could face on equal terms. But his chivalrous
- upbringing always gave female opponents an advantage.
-
- Vedula stared back at him, and smiled, enjoying his discomfiture. She leaned
- forward slightly, and his eyes turned reluctantly away from her inviting
- cleavage. Bitch, he thought. She sat back, arranging the ermine coat around
- her shoulders.
-
- "So are you going to move, or not?" he growled. As soon as he said it he knew
- it was a mistake. His temper was going, which was just what she wanted. She
- knew she had him anyway. She was just prolonging the agony.
-
- "Five-minute limit is not up," Kilduff said. He stood as the impartial judge.
- Like Vedula didn't have him under her thumb. She was like a cat, toying with
- her prey before snapping its spine.
-
- Vedula looked down at the board before her, seeming to consider a number of
- moves. As if there were more than one. "A-5," she said.
-
- Hell. "Yeah, you sunk my fuckin' battleship, bitch." He spat across the table
- at her, and the last thing he felt was Kilduff's blackjack on the back of his
- skull.
-
- --
- ---Alfvaen(a.k.a. Aaron V. Humphrey, Page of Newts)
- Canadian Network For Space Research, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- "The bullroarer churns a Moebius strip of sound..." Anna Amabiaca
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