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They fight crime!<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

This is scary. This is funny.<\/p>\n

He’s a superhumanly strong voodoo romance novelist for the 21st century. She’s a wealthy motormouth snake charmer who inherited a spooky stately manor from her late maiden aunt.<\/i> They fight crime!<\/p>\n

He’s a Nobel prize-winning amnesiac ex-con living undercover at Ringling Bros. Circus. She’s a ditzy Buddhist detective fleeing from a Satanic cult. <\/i>They fight crime!<\/p>\n

The scary part about this funny thing? Each one I see makes me think … “Hey, yeah, that would make an interesting story ….”<\/p>\n

(Via Doyce<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

They fight crime! This is scary. This is funny. He’s a superhumanly strong voodoo romance novelist for the 21st century. 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