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The Ivan Aufulich Papers
10. Grisha Skidz
Grisha Skidz ("Grisha" is a diminutive for "Grigori"), whose name was once only whispered, who sent Igor Tughetitov and so many others to "serve on a collective" (as fertilizer), has apparently learned (or created) too many secrets for his own health. He hasn't been seen in months (though he seldom was anyway); and there are rumors that he has been visited, to no benefit of his own, by the new hit man for the Party, whose name of course mustn't be mentioned either but is rumored to bear a striking resemblance to no, no, I daren't. If you need to know, you do; if you don't, you don't, and be thankful. Remember what happened to Grisha. "Nothing personal, just (Party) business," say those in the business.
©1997 Grant Schampel