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Better Read Than Dead
Victoria Laurie
Excerpt
Dealt an Unfortunate Hand It suddenly dawned on me
that this man was waiting for me to say something, and the
first tinges of panic tickled my neck. I had no idea what
this death card was trying to say. To distract the man I
laid down another card. This card was labeled, “The Tower”
and showed a huge medieval tower being struck by a bolt of
lightning sending its roof off to smash on the ground.
People were running out of the tower as if their lives
depended on it.
As I looked at this
card, there was the tickle of a thought on the edge of my
intuition, but it was faint and distant. I called out
loudly to my crew, and demanded their presence
immediately, furious that they would abandon me at the
beginning of a reading. To stall for a little more time I
laid down yet another card labeled, “Judgment” which
depicted three luminescent human figures rising from the
earth with outstretched arms toward an angel blowing a
trumpet. In one electrifying moment I felt my crew smash
back into place and I snapped my head up to look at the
man in the chair as I gasped, “Oh my god…you’ve killed
someone!”
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