“Death – The Devil – Gloria Mundi,” the tarot reader told Jack as she turned over the three cards.

Jack, standing at the Pearly Gates, complained bitterly to St. Peter: “How was I to know that jerk would change his mind about where he was going, come down my favourite alleyway, land a lucky punch on my chin, and I’d end here?”

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