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in the past," he said. "Big favors, too. Besides, my last action as a security man should be for something good."

  "Last act?" said Alice who was listening to the conversation.

  Fenster nodded. "He vowed to get out of the security business once this job was done."

  "To do what?" she said, staring at him, remembering that he was the valiant hero who had saved her life in the Dark Lands.

  "I'm going to sell greeting cards in a Hallmark Store," he said with a smile.

  Alice stared at him for a second before she turned to Fenster. "Is he serious?"

  Fenster just said nothing and smiled. Some questions just weren't meant to be answered.

  The End

  Note: There are more stories available in this “dark” mindset, which are available in Darkened Passages, a paperback novel, and also available as an e-book.

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  Duane Gundrum is the author of over a dozen novels. He has been writing for several decades and can sometimes obsess for hours over the right choice of word or words. He attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, served in the United States Army in counterintelligence, holds numerous graduate degrees and did doctorate work at Western Michigan University.

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  The Teddy Bear Conspiracy

  Leader of the Losers

  The Ameriad: The Untold Founding of America by the Survivors of Troy

  Absent Without Leave

  Innocent Until Proven Guilty

  Deadly Deceptions (A Steve Darwood Army Counterintelligence Novel)

  Destiny

  Darkened Passages

  Between a Laugh and a Scream

  Thompson’s Bounty: A Ship Out of Time

  Neorevolutionary Messages: Russia’s August 1991 Coup

  All Roads Lead to Pine Bush

  The Shadow People

  Mapping the Silence of Dreams

  Buried Memories

  License to Quill

  The Beast of Begmire (A Tales of Reagul Story)

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