[wordup] Warren Ellis features Fast Fiction

[Adam Shand]

Stuff from a whole bunch of people I've never heard of and some that I 
have.  Rules of entry are that it must be less then 200 words, and I 
like that many of them include a picture of the author.

I like the mood of this one.

Adam.

From: http://www.diepunyhumans.com/archives/000323.html
More: http://www.diepunyhumans.com/

Cyclone

The worst part's the train ride there. Back when It Was Bad, I'd make 
the call and head downstairs, knowing it would take me as long to get 
from the fifth floor as it would take "Markus" to bring me my dope. 
It's no different. You can quit drinking, quit drugging, quit smoking, 
drink wheatgrass and wash your insides out with saline every night 
before bed, but you can't trade in your bones. I'm cramping and naked, 
if you know what you're looking for. The old blonde with the bruised 
tooth knows. She's staring.

I don't let myself run. I walk, albeit briskly, off the platform, past 
the junk-sellers, past the assholes haggling over a stolen bike. I have 
my 4 dollars in pocket. There's no line. The fat man ushers me into my 
car -- the front car, always the front car -- and the safety bar comes 
down and my clit lights up and I'm scared. I'm never not scared. We 
jerk to a start up the wooden hill with a horrendous metal shriek and a 
series of clack...clack...clacks. This is my reset button, my one shot 
too many. I need this. I throw my hands up and I scream.

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Kelly Sue DeConnick writes journalism, adult fiction, and the English 
adaptations of the Japanese and Korean comic books Demon Diary, Girl 
Got Game and Sensual Phrase. She has cats called Pablo and Ham.