Seven for a Secret
“—DR. SAMUEL GEORGE MORTON, CRANIA AMERICANA, 1839 I am that rarest of deviants in New York City: one who feels about politics the way most men feel about scraping pig dung off their boots. My antipathy stems from the fact that I spent most of my life thinking my brother, who is an enormous cog in the Democratic engine, one hundred percent despicable. I’d been mistaken—Val is only three-quarters despicable. But when he landed me a job with the copper stars, he could place his highly unpolitical ...sibling only in Ward Six.
The appointment required me, as was the case with all star police, to live in Ward Six. Which was a shame, because previously I’d always treated the neighborhood just as everyone else does: avoided it. Now that I’ve a comfortable set of rooms and a landlady who pours me a small beer of an evening without my asking, I can’t be bothered to find new lodgings. Anyhow, I’m mere blocks from the Tombs. But that doesn’t make the scenery any more agreeable.MoreLess
The appointment required me, as was the case with all star police, to live in Ward Six. Which was a shame, because previously I’d always treated the neighborhood just as everyone else does: avoided it. Now that I’ve a comfortable set of rooms and a landlady who pours me a small beer of an evening without my asking, I can’t be bothered to find new lodgings. Anyhow, I’m mere blocks from the Tombs. But that doesn’t make the scenery any more agreeable.MoreLess
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