How to Hang a Body, Level 1
A loud bang echoes from the hill, and half a second later an oversize dead body shoots through the air, arms flapping, and splats against the beach house’s upstairs window, smashing the glass, then falls to the street below.
Three large virtual cannon are being maneuvered for
position, a little to the left, a little to the right, then up slightly, then
back a foot.
One is positioned on Beach Way
That final one is the most difficult to aim: move a
little up or down the hill and you have to re-aim altogether . . .
There is little concern over the wind, though,
given the nature of the ammunition, and soon all three avatars report ready to
fire.
“Let ’er rip, Eric,” the Lester avatar commands.
A loud bang echoes from the hill, and half a second
later an oversize dead body shoots through the air, arms
flapping, and splats against the beach house’s upstairs window, smashing the
glass, then falls to the street below.
“Next!” the Les avatar shouts, and a second
overweight dead body, this one from the beach, soars into the sky. Limbs
waving, it climbs, arches, and falls straight down, just narrowly missing the
pigeon coop and splatting on the ground in front of Les’s cannon.
Now Les fires and a third large dead body bursts
into the sky,
smashing into and demolishing the coop and
continuing its flight out toward the water.
“Damn. Too much powder that time,” Les says. Then
adds: “What the heck, fire at will!”
And the sky is quickly filled with a steady
bombardment of large, arm-flapping dead bodies, splatting on and around the
beach house, a barrage that continues with a vengeance long after the final
vestiges of the pigeon coop are knocked off the roof . . .
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