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In Over Her Head by Elsie Russell - Parnasse.com

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He got up, patted the lute dust off his pants and they began to<br />

tip toe down the hall. From where they were they had a partial view of<br />

the main room, and a fair enough idea of what was going in the glass<br />

la<strong>by</strong>rinth. From several layers in, a dark silhouette stepped out through<br />

the white glow of the bathroom and transmuted the ghostly elongated<br />

form of naked Ula in the incandescence of the Blob lamps.<br />

Sandro and Penny exchanged glances, their blood run cold. But<br />

Ula was busy with her own affairs, possibly getting ready for bed after<br />

her bath, or whatever occupied her in the bathroom long enough for<br />

her father to <strong>com</strong>e in, pour himself a drink, rifle through her financial<br />

records and now stand <strong>by</strong> the window with a drink.<br />

Would she <strong>com</strong>e out and shut the living room lights,<br />

considering that she was stark naked and there were no curtains? Had<br />

she even noticed they were on?<br />

Sandro and Penny were of one mind now, and neither moved a<br />

muscle.<br />

A car screeched to a halt right outside on Grand Street. Dick<br />

shoved up the window to yell out. The sound of the brakes and of the<br />

ancient window brought Ula out from her magic glass fairyland.<br />

Penny and Sandro would have been in plain view had they not<br />

been in such deep shadow. Ula, still unclothed, watched Dick from<br />

across the room as he leaned out the window and yelled, "Beatrice!<br />

Non! Restes là en bas!"<br />

Ula flew across the room and pushed him over the edge.<br />

Sandro and Penny took their chances and made a bee line for<br />

the stairs, leaping down at least two at time. All they could see beyond<br />

the Carrera parked across the sidewalk was Beatrice's bowed head as<br />

she made the sign of the cross.<br />

"I didn't push him, the drunken fool fell!" Ula hollered from the<br />

window. People began to slow down and gawk at the skinny naked lady<br />

in the window and the old man sprawled on the pavement.<br />

Beatrice rushed to her car to grab something from her glove<br />

<strong>com</strong>partment and ran across the street. Stiletti firmly planted on the<br />

Yamamoto sidewalk, she aimed up at the window. The crowd backed<br />

away. POP!<br />

Ula gripped the windowsill and convulsed, but not because she<br />

had been shot. "Heheheheh. Missed! Ha, ha, ha, you pathetic fat faced<br />

has-been. Where are those hard earned Spaghetti Western talents when<br />

you need 'em most? Yeehah! Yippity doo-dah. Giddy up, girl. Take<br />

two! Gather 'round and watch the show now, boys and girls."<br />

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