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He’s gone and agreed the 10 hour school days hasn’t he?!
Nice play on Shadow Cabinet 🙂
And a great last line
Agreed. A great last line. Too many politicians try to wash their hands of things—”Out, damned spot! Out, I say!”— but the stains remain. A good story, Icy.
I must echo that – the last line is perfect. Indeed, the whole story is perfect. You must give us the “next chapter” Icy (for this is a great set up to a much longer story).
Dark and clever, as always! I wonder if its real blood?
Beautiful. I think the end tells Etherington what the price truly is.
I don’t suppose they meet in the historic Star Chamber, do they? 🙂
Frightful deal. Excellent ending with the residue/blood on his hand.
Chilling, Icy … I like what Stephen King calls “The Hitchcock Ending” where you really don’t know for sure what happens, but you know enough — and it’s NOT happily ever after.
Haha, the Shadow Cabinet! That’s grand and punny and diabolical. I’m relieved my president can’t have one of these. He can’t, right?
All the way through I was dying to know the details of what this grave situation were.
The ending was brilliant, as Janet commented, you just know that it’s not going to be ‘Happily ever after’.
Great take on “shadow cabinet”! I wonder who they answer to — the Star Chamber?
Our Shadow Cabinet, in the UK, is just the cabinet formed by the party in opposition to the party who are in power. Which is what makes them far duller than the name would suggest!