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Molly crouched behind the piñata truck, binoculars fogging from birthday cake breath. Across the lawn, thirty presents glittered like loot in a dragon's daycare. Bill wore a clown nose over his ski mask and looked profoundly unemployable. "Plan is simple," Molly whispered. Bill nodded. "We bounce in, grab gifts, bounce out." "That's eleven words of plan and none of them good," she said, though technically it was eight. A balloon popped; both felons screamed into a handful of streamers. Molly mapped escape routes: past the magician, under the bouncy castle, through the emotional support pony. Bill suggested disguising himself as a large card. She suggested he aspire to furniture. Inside, children shrieked with joy, which complicated the moral atmosphere considerably. Still, rent was due, and the tiny wrapped boxes practically jingled. Molly checked her watch, adjusted her stolen party hat, and promised Bill that if anybody cried, they would leave one nice sock. Then the conga line turned toward the hedge. Somewhere a mother blew a kazoo like a battlefield trumpet, and every adult reached for coffee strong enough to file taxes beside the truly suspiciously damp gift table. Molly hated childhood nostalgia most during payroll. Crime smelled like frosting.