The inspiration:
A story:
I was in a bad part of town, the room as gloomy as Max’s face. He hunkered over it, jewelers loupe glinting under the single light.
I felt anxious but not unsafe. It would take one of Patton’s Army tanks to breech this hidey-hole. A tattoo of grey-green numbers was visible on Max’s inner arm. One of Life’s hard lessons.
“Real?”
“Oh yes. Beautiful stone, 2 carats, antique cut.”
“And?”
“Real. Don’t tell me how it got loose from the … owner.”
That worried me. Not the diamond but its setting; a canine tooth – 3 inches long …
… And human.
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Wait.. Turn that around.. I mean, a human tooth – 3 inches long … … And yet somehow canine .. err.. I mean incisor.. whatever.. the front tooth…actually, in truth more Leporidae.. Frank?