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— 𝗗.𝗦 𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗬. @dsmonday.bsky.social · 2h

looks like we've got ourselves another monday monday on our hands.

— 𝗗.𝗦 𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗬. @dsmonday.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

it's another rainy night on the beat. monday's on his fourth cigarette, nursing a cold coffee for his health. any more of this and he'll catch something, damnit.

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— 𝗗.𝗦 𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗬. @dsmonday.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

another monday monday . . . they're gonna start askin' me for signatures at this rate.

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— 𝗗.𝗦 𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗬. @dsmonday.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

sure. i ain't underestimatin' him, pal. there ain't nothin' like ambition. i give you that. but i ain't terrified of him either. 'sides, he wanted me *dead*, he'd have tried his hand by now. he's just tryna warn me off, 's all.

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— 𝗗.𝗦 𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗬. @dsmonday.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

what? i-- now what gives you that idea, kid? anklebiters, is what i mean. sure, he's got the muscle, but five'll get you ten it won't last. give it ten, fifteen years, tops.

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— 𝗗.𝗦 𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗬. @dsmonday.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

aw, that? that was nothing. try falling down five flights of the manifold 'cause the floor's given way beneath you. try narrowly escaping an oxy-leak. the isb ain't for the weak. i met dusty's type all the time during the War.

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— 𝗗.𝗦 𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗬. @dsmonday.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

seems to me like there's nowhere dusty loves more than the rim, if you know what i mean. ( he has his sad little smile. thinking unhappy thoughts. ) it was alright. broke the news myself. can't make the boys do that. me and the old farts. like kincaid -- he's older than me, can you imagine that?

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— 𝗗.𝗦 𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗬. @dsmonday.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

they send us wherever 'cos i keep my department in shape. even sent fellas up the rim a coupla times. hey, bet your pal dusty would like that.

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— 𝗗.𝗦 𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗬. @dsmonday.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

oh, i bet he would. dead kids rough. whole school went up, like *that*. ( he snaps his fingers. )

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— 𝗗.𝗦 𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗬. @dsmonday.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

same as always. just a coupla rough days at work. an' i'll have you know i'm a, uh . . . what's it, uh, y'know . . . a, a . . . spring chicken! yeah. so i ain't goin' anywhere just yet.

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— 𝗗.𝗦 𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗬. @dsmonday.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

alright. ( he closes the door for a second to grab his keys and hat. locking up, taking his drink. ) feels like not so long ago i was doin' this with you. takin' you outta that hallelujah hutch, coasting down nine . . . now look at us, huh? you doin' it for me. ( head shake. ) just ain't right.

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— 𝗗.𝗦 𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗬. @dsmonday.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

this week monday's boys are clearing out a deep blockage in the sewers beneath the flats. the things people are stupid enough to flush . . .

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— 𝗗.𝗦 𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗬. @dsmonday.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

don't be saying things like that. don't. you dig?

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— 𝗗.𝗦 𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗬. @dsmonday.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

monday on the morning shift now, coming in six-thirty sharp to find mehta on the desk, twirling a pencil in his hand, face scrunched against the paper. the wireless in the background talking about this ambrose affair in the third division: some swindler, dead now, who made the froggies so mad

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— 𝗗.𝗦 𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗬. @dsmonday.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

( he looks at the block in the fella's hand, then all around them. ) who're you talkin' to?

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— 𝗗.𝗦 𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗬. @dsmonday.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

louis, louis . . . he the one who ran the speakeasy?

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— 𝗗.𝗦 𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗬. @dsmonday.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

hard to miss him. he's got a big fat red nose, like a clown, see? ( gesturing honking his nose. noise and all. how old's this kid? fourteen? too old to find that funny. ah, to hell with it. not his beat anyway. the pang of regret only slightly stings. ) uh, pleasure, claudia. who're your parents?

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— 𝗗.𝗦 𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗬. @dsmonday.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

d.s. monday. i'm philips's boss. you know philips? the beat cop? he's . . . off sick today, so i'm filling in.

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— 𝗗.𝗦 𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗬. @dsmonday.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

good kid. here's a finkel. go buy yourself a dixie dugan.

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— 𝗗.𝗦 𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗬. @dsmonday.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

yeah, alright . . . i'm a *detective*. dome surveyor, detective . . . they're the same thing! seems like you've got a lotta fingers in a lotta pies, mister reynolds.

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— 𝗗.𝗦 𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗬. @dsmonday.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

you . . . 'get involved with other types of businesses'? what does that mean, exactly? i'm a dome surveyor. don't the dirty clothes and worn-out hat give it away?

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— 𝗗.𝗦 𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗬. @dsmonday.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

( to the holodeck: ) ci mancava pure questa, huh pal? ( he stretches with a groan and goes to the window, taking a cigarette and running it across his lips before lighting it. he thinks about the street outside, kids drinking dirty water and old women with their skulls caved lying in their

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— 𝗗.𝗦 𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗬. @dsmonday.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

who, me? i was a model student, never skipped class. actually they said a whole lot 'bout how you *shouldn't* kill people.

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— 𝗗.𝗦 𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗬. @dsmonday.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

funny, i don't remember learning that at the academy.

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— 𝗗.𝗦 𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗬. @dsmonday.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

( he says nothing for a moment. he needn't, for he knows that kitty can imagine his reaction on the other end quite clearly. ) i'll think about it.

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— 𝗗.𝗦 𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗬. @dsmonday.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

curiosity killed the kitty, y'know. whaddaya want, anyhow?

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— 𝗗.𝗦 𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗬. @dsmonday.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

some of us got jobs to do, banks, and i do mine pretty well.

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— 𝗗.𝗦 𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗬. @dsmonday.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

do i look like the kinda man who's got time to read the papers?

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— 𝗗.𝗦 𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗬. @dsmonday.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

now you don't gotta answer it if you don't wanna. but i hafta know, just *where the hell* are you from that *eating and drinking at different times* is a new concept to you?

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