Word: assassinate
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Cookies were cast awry as the assassin gave chase. His quarry faked left and right, but could find no escape. Spotting a cookie and brownie-laden isle, the prey doubled back and around the fixture, searching frantically for a point of egress. The predator raced along an array of juices and milks, his menacing gait punctuated by the spoon he held clutched in his right hand. Ten feet, six feet, three feet lay between the pursued and a gruesome death by spoon...
...assassin lunged?...
...hall went quiet as frightened students frantically tried to locate the source of the disturbance, perhaps wondering if their own assassination was impending. But no, an assassin had already marked his prey...
...have created additional rules, such as the now-repealed “streets are safe but sidewalks are not” rule and the “naked people are safe, but not from other naked people” rule, which has led to much impromptu stripping. The last assassin alive wins...
...alternative versions of “The Odyssey.” One story has Odysseus (here named “Mr. O.”) living in a sanatorium, where he spends his days trying to remember a distant war. Another has him as Agamemnon’s prized assassin, faced with the unfortunate order of killing himself. Sticking with the pretext of fragmentation, Mason never fully fleshes out the action in each tale. As a result, his stories elude simple interpretation...