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Just the Four of Us |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
Just the Four of Us We are killers. There are four of us. We chose this profession, it didn't choose us. For us to kill someone must come to us and pay our price. The price is not set, it goes up and down like the price of gasoline, but mostly up. We have never messed up. We always kill our man or woman, but we don't do children, thats an unwritten rule. Once that rule was broken, there was a mistake. Allright we messed up once. We all have names that aren't our real names. We all have our specialities, and like special forces we have more than one. We speak seven languages and that helps us travel the world and communicate with those that want us to eliminate. These are our names, changed to protect the not so innocent: Jawbreaker, Pork Salad, Liberace and Johnie Stofiani. Let me share a few specifics about the one called Jawbreaker. He was raised in foster homes, having four different step dads, and not one of them would leave him alone, that is until he reached the age of 15, and one night he was watching his stepdad putting on some rings and stepsons know what that means, and that night he stood up to be a man, with fists of fury he broke stepdads jaw and as he watched him fall, he knew he had to leave Chicago for awhile. Witnessed this myself one night in Guam, the way Pork Salad picked up his name. He went to a combination luau and chicken fight one night and he got into a fight with a Filipino man with a big machete. Seems the guy with the machete took a swing at Eddy, his name at the time, and before anyone could help out, Eddy took the machete, cut off the luau's pig head and placed the pigs head over the Filipino's head with the apple still in his mouth. I yelled pork salad as we departed and that name's stuck ever since. Soo Long, alias Liberace, lived in Hong Kong until he turned 13, and he would dream of joining the boy scouts because they had axes and knives and other sharp things, so one day while his mother was away, he pushed the piano that she required him to play for at least two hours a day, down the stupid stairs, and the piano was smart enough to break into litte pieces, and Soo Long, figuring a piano tuner would take a while to fix it, hit the road, and five years later me and the boys met him in Seoul. Now you might wondr about this guy named Johnie Stofiani, I know I do every day. His grandfatehr was pure Italian, so that made him about a 25%er, with some Scottish, Irish English to finish him off, and one day he figured he had enough of home, and he didn't like being alone, so he went off a joined the U.S. Army. They sent him to Germany to see what the world looked life over the sea, and it looked plenty good from where he stood. He took a bus to the Frankfort Zoo and met a woman that thought she knew exactly what he wanted and she thought she had it all. After a while he got real bored, but then he met a Korean woman he adored and she said "Lets go home and meet my mommy and daddy." So off to Korea they go, to a big beautiful city named Seoul, and he fell in love with the woman and her city. Two weeks after the wedding Stofiani's wife "So Young" and pretty ask him how he was going to make a living. He took out the business card he had been given at the wedding by a man named Eddy and said "I think I'll give this a try." We are killers, there are four of us, we chose this profession it didn't choose us. JamesLee 06May 2008 [This message has been edited by JamesMichael (05-08-2008 08:10 PM).] |
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Roniece Dawson-Bruce Member Ascendant
since 2000-01-29
Posts 5689Sydney, Australia |
gosh James... this is wonderful! love RDB Be kind at heart....for everyone you meet has their own battle to fight......... |
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gilead Senior Member
since 2008-03-10
Posts 1067nevada, USA |
This is a remarkable way at looking at this subject, and wonderfully done! I like the brutal starkness of---killers! Art |
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Marchmadness Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 9271So. El Monte, California |
Wow! James, I have a question andI hope it doesn't offend you but why do you do that "kissy face stuff"all the time when you can write like this. this is great! Ida |
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steavenr Member Elite
since 2003-11-17
Posts 4058 |
very interesting and clever write...will you be posting your rates  |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
Thanks Roniece, gilead, Marchmadness and stevenr for the wonderful responses... Marchmadness if I were offended easily I think I would be...but I understand different strokes for different folks...kindof like the Presidential race...James |
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jwesley Member Rara Avis
since 2000-04-30
Posts 7563Spring, Texas |
Well, another side of you .... but truth be told...hell of a read. Much enjoyed. Jimmy |
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Artic Wind Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 8080Realm of Supernatural |
Lovely writing ARCTIC WIND |
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Marchmadness Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 9271So. El Monte, California |
Sorry James, I really didn't mean to be rude. Sometimes I just say what I'm thinking without thinking, I guess. Ida |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
Thank you jwesley, Artic Wind and Marchmadness for the nice responses...much appreciated...James |
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