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Hi listeners, I'm Nikki Boyer and I have a story I want to tell you.

A story about a lonely janitor seduced by a fatal attraction.

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Henry Genn Flynn, who was referred to as Henry Flemm by the majority of his classmates,

pushed his broomstick down the deserted runway of Fester's fun world and adventures.

Autumn wind licked at his pre-balling head in hungry laps.

Scraps of funnel cake paper and soda cups crumbled under the oncoming plow of his stick.

The rundown amusement park saddled itself on the hip of the Pacific Ocean.

And Henry could taste the salt swirling about the air.

It left a residue on his tongue like acid snowflakes.

As he swept, he thought, maybe she could love me.

The she in question was Miranda Skychant.

Into him, she was the most beautiful creature to have ever crested these shorelines.

Her hair was the golden color of honey against cream and was often topped with a puffy white bow tie.

Henry also believed, as he sat behind her in literature class,

that she radiated the wonderful smell of a July thunderstorm.

Once, she had looked directly at Henry while passing back an assignment their teacher had shuffled out.

Her eyes were twin chips of blue ice that had frozen him in his chair.

Frozen starlights for the words he had scribbled up and down his assignment in frenzy,

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