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I met my move quick-time, slip into the mass of closed-eyed skankers, sucked into the slipstream of rippling spines. Try to get as close as I can to the decks, watch the MC, see how he handles the mic and the controls. We’re dancing in darkness, skinning up with the dead. I feel them twisting […]
Elfrieda has a fresh cut just above her left eyebrow. There are seven stitches holding her forehead together. The stitches are black and stiff and the ends poke out of her head like little antennae. I asked her how she got that cut and she told me that she fell in the washroom. Who knows […]
BILLY: Kun astelimme lavalta sen palkinnon kanssa, katsoin häntä. Ja hän hymyili minulle. Ja minä mietin: hän on saamassa elämänsä reilaan. ELAINE CHANG: Kun Daisy otti vastaan Vuoden äänite -Grammyn, hänen tukkansa oli sotkussa ja hänellä oli rannerenkaita kyynärpäihin saakka ja ohut kermanvärinen naruolkaiminen silkkimekko ja hän näytti johtavan sitä bändiä, hän näytti luottavan itseensä […]
It begins with music. I must have been about two years old. My bed was by a window; the sun was shining in. I remember my father lying next to me, playing the violin, his eyes hidden behind black glasses. The scroll of the violin was pressed against the mattress; the instrument’s lower body was […]
“What about you?” asks Grace, addressing her father for the first time. “Why didn’t you tell me about this?” He was diagnosed just before Christmas last year. He didn’t want to ruin Grace’s holiday with his grim news. Then full denial set in. He couldn’t have even whispered, alone in his condo with no one […]
That was the moment, before I even stepped onto the train, when I realized the most important thing that was happening to me. They were takin my natural feelings away, so quietly that it could have occurred without my noticing. I understood in a flash that I must keep my mind safe, whatever came next. […]
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