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{ "headline": "TRIPLE POSE TRAGEDY LEAVES THREE OUTLINES CLUTCHING INVISIBLE BANJOS", "subhead": "Investigators suspect an illegal synchronized slouching maneuver gone completely sideways outside a local tintype studio.", "byline": "By Buster 'Grit' Clackett, Frontier Kerbside Desk", "dateline": "SOUR MILK CROSSING — Thursday, 3:41 P.M.", "article": "Ominous crimson danger tape snapped in the dry prairie breeze this afternoon as municipal investigators cordoned off three chalk silhouettes frozen in what forensics described as 'the awkward middle-school boyband formation.' Evidence Marker No. 1 sat beside a figure with fingers permanently splayed in a gesture of faint enthusiasm, while Marker No. 2 guarded a set of chalk knees bent at a structurally unfeasible forty-degree tilt.\n\n'The calcium deposits tell a harrowing tale of peer pressure and poor posture,' said Chief Pavement Stenciler Barnaby Furlong of the Dust District Caligraphy Unit, dusting a stray pebble with a tiny camel-hair brush. 'Our preliminary trajectory calculations indicate all three subjects attempted a synchronized rugged squint into the middle distance before losing traction on a discarded butter pat. Nobody falls with jazz hands by accident.'\n\nEye-witness Beverly Gristle, 61, a licensed sarsaparilla app