Hundred Handed One Novels & Stories

" Lynn announced loudly, raising the phone in her hands. The entire chamber froze.

I tense again, my fingers curling into the fabric of his shirt without me deciding to do that. His breath stutters, just once but I notice and he notices that I notice. “Harriet,” he says again, slower this time. “What?” I ask. His arm tightens slightly around my shoulders. “Nothing.” The rain keeps falling. Minutes pass, I can’t say how many because the time feels longer in the dark. At some point, his hand slides from my arm down to my forearm, then to my hand. He doesn’t lace our fingers together. He just holds my hand loosely, his thumb brushing over my knuckles in a slow, absent motion.

"Break his hands." The sound that came out of Mr. Harrington was not a dignified one. He pulled his hands back and curled over them and started talking fast — names, promises, his wife, his children, thirty years of service, every card he had left to play. He put all of it on the table in the thirty seconds between the instruction and the guard reaching him. The guard reached him. The hands Mr. Harrington had always been quietly proud of — steady hands, a principal's hands, hands that had signed a hundred letters just like the one he sent that afternoon — did not come through the night well.

I kept quiet as he held right hand in his. Every bit of me shivered. His hand felt cold yet quite fun to touch. I had already began to feel ‘that way’ though all he did was rub my fingers softly. I hated that I was easily aroused, I mean, what did that say about me? Just two hands touching and I was so close to exhaling stupidly. I guess it was the ‘virgin syndrome'. “Look, George, I'm not one to rush into anything.” “I'm not asking you to.”

"Renea, three cards that are linked together, count as one sentence, eleven cards, a pair counts as a general, three of the same count as one sentence, three linked together count as well, all the cards, linked together like this, count as a listening card, and in a moment, you'll count it as a hu hand whether you touch it, or it." Only with a full deck of cards in your hand can you speak more intelligently and those who learn can listen more clearly.

“But I don’t want you to do anything yet. Give me until lunchtime tomorrow.” “That won’t leave me much time to organise the money.” “Hopefully, you won’t need to worry about that.” “Thank you, Mr Handful.” He shook my hand and turned away and I walked back to my car with absolutely no idea how I was going to prevent Sir Gerard Seymour Hornby parting with half a million pounds. *

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“Very good! The both of you learn fast. Once you are familiar with this counting method, I will teach you how to count double digits with two hands. When you reach ten, instead of lifting your pinky on the right hand, clench your right hand into a fist. Then clench your left hand into a fist with palms facing upwards and extend a thumb.” Following Emily’s instructions, the boys counted from one to ninety-nine using both hands. “What comes after ninety-nine?” Ludwig asked, and Darren looked like he had attained enlightenment with this brilliant counting method. He no longer needed to borrow his brother’s fingers or toes with this! “One hundred,” Emily smiled. “However, it’s a little too soon

He immediately handed me a polished revolver and a single bullet. In front of Liliana, I slid the bullet into the cylinder. Then, with my left thumb, I spun it. When it stopped, I snapped the cylinder shut. I pressed the barrel to her temple. "One in six. If you win, you walk. If you lose…" I paused, then mimicked the sound of a gunshot. She completely broke down.

She grinned, extending her hand and I slipped my palm in hers, relishing her touch. "Hey look! It's one of your songs - Nights After Nights!" She whispered, running into the crowd and my hand slipped from hers. A slight panic settled in - a slight anxiety - but it vanished as soon as I found her, at center of the writhing crowd, hisp swaying to the rhythm and hands high up in the air and I felt myself getting entranced at the sight.