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In Over Her Head by Elsie Russell - Parnasse.com

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uxom goddesses. She turned right, down the Boulevard Montparnasse<br />

towards the ugly tower, knowing that beyond this, towards the river,<br />

was the seventh. She could follow the top of the Eiffel tower when it<br />

peeked up through the rooftops, and the house was somewhere<br />

between those two landmarks.<br />

An uneasy silence reigned at the table as Penny sat down at her<br />

place.<br />

"I went to the Louvre, I just had to see it, although it's so huge<br />

that I probably couldn't see all of it in a lifetime!" Penny said, as she<br />

sipped her cream of asparagus soup.<br />

Alessandro was absent from the table. Maia pushed her<br />

croutons around her soup as if they were little boats. Max jaw muscles<br />

flexed obscenely as he ripped off chunks of bread with his teeth. Only<br />

Signora carried on as if all were normal.<br />

"I am delighted that you saw our great museum, what did you<br />

visit first?" She said in a too peppy voice.<br />

"I really only got to see the sculpture of the Greeks and<br />

Romans and Michelangelo. I didn't have time for the mummies or the<br />

paintings."<br />

No way was she going to mention Ula, so she just babbled on<br />

until dinner was over and disappeared to her room to listen to the day's<br />

catch on the minidisc player.<br />

Penny cleaned out her <strong>com</strong>puter mailbox. Trash that the spam<br />

bot hadn't gotten to yet. "Bigger thicker penis, larger nuts!" (Larger<br />

nuts? Squirrels would love that one, she chuckled and hit the junk key.)<br />

Another. "Pennis drukgs!!!." What would they think of next! Hit Junk.<br />

One of those Nigerian money scams. Junk. And what was this?<br />

Hieroglyphs of code mixed with some obnoxious leet jargon: phux0red,<br />

and pr0n, but then she caught the terms 8311 (Bell) and 3Lf, (E.L.F.)<br />

pointing right at her. The spam bot caught up and zapped it away<br />

before she could finish scanning it. Then she saw that her firewall was<br />

down.<br />

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