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Hold it Till it Hurts (excerpt)

A chilles was looking for an average Black male. He described his brother as five feet nine inches tall, one hundred seventy pounds, with light-brown skin and dark-brown eyes. The man with the clipped voice who had answered the phone at the morgue echoed the description then said, as if to himself, "Average height, average weight, average build, and average complexion." He pronounced it complected.

Achilles fiddled with his rearview mirror as the man sighed deeply and asked him to hold. He heard a chair creak, the phone drop, and the raspy groan of reluctant metal file cabinets. A shadow fell over his car as the St. Charles streetcar turned onto Canal St. and came to a halt abreast of where ...

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