Hands Off! by Ron Kenney

Bloody Fingers by Maddagone on DeviantArt.com

Amid screams of digital pain, Three-Fingered Manny yells, “Faces, dis is ya’ final warnin’! Lay off our M&N businesses or we twist your thumbs off and stuff them up your nose!”

Watching the torturous scene from the alley door, Knuckles the Kracker chortles. “Pull his nails rickety-tick, and he’ll knuckle under damn quick!”

“Better yet,” snickers Palms Paulie, “give him the Chicago nail-gun crucifixtion! That’ll stop him.”

With a final twist of the thumb wire, Three-Fingers sneers at Faces. “Hands off our Manicure and Nail shops … we got the squeeze on that market.”