[8-Jan-2016] [Noir] True Noir Story

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Title: True Noir Story
Prompt: 8-Jan-2016 "a thing can be true and still be desperate folly"
Based on: Noir
Characters: Mireille, Paulette
Type: Humor?; 100 words
Warnings: A spoiler for the main plot twist.

Mireille was chatting with her hairdresser (and occasional crime-world informant) Paulette.

"Are you still working with that Japanese girl?" Paulette said between scissor snips. "How did you two meet?"

"The truth?" Mireille said slowly. "...she murdered my parents and my brother back when we were children."

Paulette froze. "...you're JOKING," she said in disbelief.

"Have you known me to joke about such things?" Mireille said testily.

"No," Paulette admitted, "but I also did not know that you were MAD."

"If I were sane," Mireille said dryly, "I would not have gone into this line of work in the first place."