A Hanging Madness, Chapter 7, by Jacob Malewitz, on Mercenary Armor, for Mercenary Star 100
A Hanging Madness by Jacob Malewitz Chapter 7 Blue Vest, 100 Blue Sweater, 200 Columbia, 5 mill Patlabor Summoners, 2 trill “Ha.” And he pulled away, noting the desk was now covered with small pieces of technology combined with symbols of old world mankind with the newspaper clippings and the notes on a yellow notepad, the old fashioned pen. He lit another cigarette. He had two left, bummed from Joe who wouldn’t miss them with his boxes of cigars. And how did Paul hold all this together while being haunted by angels and demons? He thought of Alice Amy, for no apparent reason, but he thought of her. The long legs, the lips, the wild look in her eyes, the red hair which looked all the more wild and sexy; her voice was a different matter; her situation even worse. He decided then and there to visit her, to see what had happened. Newspapers lay all across the living room, and the TV was still on MSNBC. He turned it off and read a feature story on religion, odd to be in...