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  In detail.

  Shame was a powerful motivator.

  “All that’s behind us now,” Hank’s business partner Travis said, clapping his buddy on the shoulder. He still looked like a young Richard Dreyfuss, just a little less young, and a little more fat. “Onward and forward, I always say.”

  “Onward and forward!” Brandon Tran agreed, raising his beer at the grill.

  Steve cleared his throat, waxing philosophical. “My dad used to say, ‘There’s no such thing as a good man, only men who try to be good… and men who don’t try at all.’”

  “I’ll drink to that,” Hank said thoughtfully.

  They all did.

  The End

  April 2, 2011

  Metropolis, IL

  About the Author

  Rod Redux lives in Southern Illinois with his wife, his kids, and all the voices in his head. Hole: A Ghost Story is his fifth novel.