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Soul Music - haystack

Oct 6th, 2024
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  1. There was a haystack behind a livery stable in Phedre Road. It bulged for a moment, and there was a muffled swearing. A fraction of a second later there was a bout of coughing and another, much better, swear- word inside a grain silo down near the cattle market. Very shortly after that some rotten floorboards in an old feed store in Short Street exploded upwards, followed by a swear-word that bounced off a flour sack.
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  3. 'Idiot rodent!' bellowed Albert, fingering grain out of his ear.
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  5. SQUEAK.
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  7. 'I should think so! What size do you think I am?' Albert brushed hay and flour off his coat and walked over to the window. 'Ah,' he said, 'let us repair to the Mended Drum, then.'
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  9. In Albert's pocket, sand resumed its interrupted journey from future to past.
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  11. ***
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  13. Soul Music - p209-210
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