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Parlay With the Devil

Scott Gil

Submitted to Contest #215

I met my friend Jed at a Gin Mill. The place was at the docks on the Brooklyn waterfront. The night was foggy, blanketing the ground most creepily. It felt like a scene in an old Universal horror movie, and I expected Boris Karloff to pop out of the next corner warehouse. A guy in a London fog raincoat was nearby with a dark fedora, and I amusingly thought it was Bela Lugosi with a hidden cape under there. And I would watch him use that crooked hand, staring with those deep black eyes. The heavy Hungarian accent seduces his victim for a bloo...

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