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silent as snow.
    Charles Flagg then sat in in his favorite easy chair, facing the window that overlooked Grays Ferry Avenue, the echo of forty years of grief and sadness a canto that rose and fell with the reading of his sins.
    At just after midnight, his family photo album in his lap, Charles Flagg put the barrel of a Smith and Wesson .32 revolver against the soft palate at the roof of his mouth and pulled the trigger.
    His last thought was not of the bright yellow tape that circled the southern end of Schuylkill River Park, but rather of a different kind of ribbon.
    A pale yellow ribbon tied in a bow.

Books by Richard Montanari
    The Doll Maker
    The Stolen Ones
    The Killing Room
    The Echo Man
    The Devil’s Garden
    Badlands
    Merciless
    The Skin Gods
    The Rosary Girls
    Kiss of Evil
    The Violet Hour
    Deviant Way

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    Copyright © 2015 by Richard Montanari
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