Let them eat cake.

[valehdella]

Warm sun spilled in the window, dappling the room of the Tuscan villa with golden beams. Wine, expensive and lushly hued, filled paper-thin stems with liquid ruby. "You know, they're probably foreclosing on the Whitmans' house today. Possibly even right now." His tone was idly speculative, entirely unconcerned with two suddenly poor people in

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[ars_diavoli]

I love this story. It's a beautiful snapshot of the most banal species of evil - an utterly self-serving wickedness that dismisses virtue with the same sort of casual callousness with which the average city-dweller ignores the panhandling homeless.

You know, I was about to say that I couldn't believe the fact that you found an icon of a naked woman rolling around in money, but then I actually thought about it and realzied that I probably should have instead been shocked if you couldn't find such an icon on the intarweb.

[valehdella]

It is deliciously banal in its destructiveness.

What was surprising is that I didn't have to hit any porn sites. I'd actually made it a while back from a picture off IMDB, and just didn't have a use for it.