Gray's 100-word story for June 26, 2025

Gray wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on June 26, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

Mariano could've played himself on TV. Jimmy Conway meets Tony Soprano thinking he was Tommy Shelby. Hitchcock silhouette in the harsh glare of streetlights through broken windows kinda guy, plus the shadow of cigar smoke. Never got his hands dirty direct; a delegator, knew how to keep a delegee quiet, covered tracks like fresh snowfall. Other talents: beating his wife, importing children to his McMansion. Thought he cut a figure. Liberto never told him he looked like the big-nosed, buck-tooth toy rabbit his father gave him as an infant. Just left the thing on his grave as a final screw-you.

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