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STANLEY & MYRA SAY FUCK IT
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MY FATHER & THE UNICORN
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Unfinished: Fancy Dress
Well back in the line the Red Queen's Knight is on the phone, continuing to try his best to get the King's Rook back in line, but the King's Rook is pulling out old bank statements, trying to prove his worth. You can't hear what the Knight is saying to him but if you were looking at his face you'd see him watching our guy pretty carefully, and he's smiling as he talks easily on the phone. He knows the Rook's already in, and this is just the way you pay the Piper. |
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Untitled, Chapter Three: How I Learned To Win (Short Story THE CHIRALITY, by Deirdre Kenicke)
I was full boss the first two years out of school but I lost the right leg and then two weeks later the left one. I've still got one arm but they blew my brains out last year on Delta and so that's new too. Which I like. Simon's comm is bulky on the outside of his head and he never takes it off. All my stuff's inside. Untitled, Chapter Three: How I Learned To Win ( Short Story THE CHIRALITY By Deirdre Kenicke -- First Draft ) |
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Red Settlement 50: Someone Leaves The Light On
"Here we go, you bastards," I say, "I brought an army this time." Red Settlement 50 ( Someone Leaves The Light On ) END NOVEL: RED SETTLEMENT, Or, AWAY WITH THE FAIRIES.
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Red Settlement 49: This New Book Of My Body And she begins to Read. Red Settlement 49
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Red Settlement 48: I Love To Be A Spy
You came and left, without caring. That it was you in the car all along, and you drove right past. Red Settlement 48
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Red Settlement 47: The Tower & The End Of The Sky
The baby makes me tell myself fairy tales, the ones I remember and the ones I make up myself, to practice for her. Red Settlement 47 ( The Tower & The End Of The Sky )
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Red Settlement 46: Working The Rail I think that Red gave them back years even as it took a percentage of their oxygen and a majority of their gravity, and now they are breathless and weightless and in love and young again and I start to fall in love with them again too. Red Settlement 46 ( Working The Rail )
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Red Settlement 45: The Secret Club Of Boys
You are a man who has been proud and who has been laid low, you are a person who said goodbye to your father with a smile and leapt in one moment, free of gravity, all the way up to Red, like you were dancing. And you never looked back. Red Settlement 45
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Red Settlement 44: Like A Mother & A Father Not Quite
It makes my parents comfortable. Soon enough they become more like themselves and less like guests in a country with a foreign language. Red Settlement 44 ( Like A Mother & A Father Not Quite )
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Red Settlement 43: The Singing Of Witches, The Dancing Of Pirates
We mouth the words along her, some in an ironic stance and others with teary wonder, and we are one Red family. I wonder, in these times, if it's because we were all trained so well in the Book down on Blue, if these rhythms and these pledges cling to us like dust, or if there is a greater language, free from any temporary context: the language of grace, as big as all the sky. Red Settlement 43 ( The Singing Of Witches, The Dancing Of Pirates )
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Red Settlement 42: Letting In & Being Let
I’ve been observed for months going to the Port Authority and watching the Shuttle being rebuilt. I've been observed for months breaking down in tears and watching it launch into the sky. Red Settlement 42
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Red Settlement 41: The Abyss Of What Happens
How could you ever think just one story could contain you? Red Settlement 41
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Red Settlement 40: Embarrassed Electricity
No idea how many people died when it was gone. Troy pretended it didn't make her cry but I saw. Red Settlement 40
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Red Settlement 39: Constituent Parts
I will be able to dial a number, be connected, and then call to my wife, and say "Mirth, Link's on the phone!" And she'll pick up an extension, and then we'll say ... Red Settlement 39
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Red Settlement 38: For The First Time From Space "A gift from the moons," they say, and smile up in the light. I roll my eyes and want something I cannot name. Red Settlement 38 ( For The First Time From Space )
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Red Settlement 37: Coming Back Less Horrible
She will be asking for forgiveness and I won't say anything, and she won't know that's what she wants, but I will give it and she will finally let her shoulders drop. Red Settlement 37
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Red Settlement 36: The Color Of Plums
If they found out, if they could see into my mind, I'd be in a cell by now. The crimes I have done with a smile on my face and the Book in my mouth. Red Settlement 36:
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Red Settlement 35: Waiting To Drop The Bomb
There's so much room in this house for us both, now that I know what I'm doing. Red Settlement 35
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Red Settlement 34: The Knife Is Too Tired
So I say I only want Ted. And that is true. Red Settlement 34
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Red Settlement 33: The Boy Who Wears Green
There were fifteen people dead all told after the explosion, but nobody strategic. And nobody we wanted dead. Red Settlement 33
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Red Settlement 32: I Have No Issue Nor Have I Ever
Inside I am no color but the airy golden light of the Book and its angels, like them neither man nor woman. Red Settlement 32 ( I Have No Issue Nor Have I Ever )
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Red Settlement 31: If He Wasn't Red At All
"If I can't make these choices for myself then what is Red." Red Settlement 31
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Red Settlement 30: All The Things That Are Known
After so long fearing the Shuttle's destruction, and so much work staving off that nightmare, it is curious that such a simple device, a plastique bomb with a timer, would have been affixed in full view of the Governing Body, with no intervention. Red Settlement 30 ( All The Things That Are Known )
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Red Settlement 29: Dix Goodfellow & The Queen Of The Witches
Was their love not the rose that bloomed in the red dust of the Settlement, in defiance of all nature and Book, coming like a message from the future to save them all? Red Settlement 29 ( Dix Goodfellow & The Queen Of The Witches )
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Red Settlement 28: Beyond Your Shroud & Your Cowardly Gamble
"I ask you to listen to the voice of the Book in your own heart." "Then you are damned." Red Settlement 28 ( Beyond Your Shroud & Your Cowardly Gamble )
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Red Settlement 27: I'm Still Too Much Pirate
He smiles but it isn't a smile. His eyes are like the moons. Red Settlement 27
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Red Settlement 26: You Cannot Store Up Love Nor Can You Redirect It
That you could forge a beauty and a love out of anything, and this was a sign of providence. Red Settlement 26 ( You Cannot Store Up Love Nor Can You Redirect It )
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Red Settlement 25: The Fact Of Free Agency
First the cause, and then when that proved futile, art. And then I was all of a sudden a terrorist, an example. Red Settlement 25
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Red Settlement 24: Field Is Many Things
There was a law against laws that told you not to think the thought or say the word before you said it. Once on Blue it was outlawed to tell a person they couldn't think the thought they hadn't yet thought. And now it is the heart of the Book. Red Settlement 24
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Red Settlement 23: Knife Out, Body Hard
Only once have I attended and it scared me terribly and I have not gone back, for on that night with Fear and Dread so bright and full above and twisted I felt a thing I cannot name. Red Settlement 23
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Red Settlement 22: But Could You Bless The Son That Remains
And Honor raised Chess to his feet, and gazed into his eyes, and the tears there must have been the overwhelming love of the Book that we've all felt. Red Settlement 22 ( But Could You Bless The Son That Remains )
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Red Settlement 21: Goff Rolls His Eyes
How many nights or hours until I wake up and find myself in the exact middle of our great bed? The time is getting shorter. Red Settlement 21
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Red Settlement 20: Curled In The Wart
I got that thing open and it hurt but it was worth it, seeing it under the light of the sun. Remember when he was a friend? The last time I loved him was on the Fairy when we went sunside and the world was full of light and Rend smiled so bright. Red Settlement 20
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Red Settlement 19: Keep Me Searching For A Cinnamon Girl
They set you up in these stations and all you get is Red line, Red line, feeling this and fucking that, and you're supposed to make sense of this. Red Settlement 19 ( Keep Me Searching For A Cinnamon Girl )
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Red Settlement 18: Dix Goodfellow, Pirate Of Mars
We caress when we should cut and we shake hands when we should slap and we refuse to simply tell the truth plain: life in goggles and sweaty atmo suits is no life at all. Red Settlement 18 ( Dix Goodfellow, Pirate Of Mars )
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Red Settlement 17: Three Weeks Of Strong Wind
"You know how when you were little, they tried to make you right-handed? And they tied your hand to the desk, and you cried?" Red Settlement 17 ( Three Weeks Of Strong Wind )
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Red Settlement 16: The Cruise And What It Takes From You
What percentage of Blue is perfect for this life? How many of us are living these quiet approximations and know the rules and lies we’re telling in order to stay in the Book and the Blue? Red Settlement 16 ( The Cruise And What It Takes From You )
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Red Settlement 15: What We Can All Do Moving Forward
I can barely remember the point of the sentences by the time I reach the end. I can barely remember to hate myself in the spaces, grown elegantly long, grown cavernous and echoing, between the words. Red Settlement 15 ( What We Can All Do Moving Forward )
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Red Settlement 14: The Red Sun Over The Red Hill
You say to yourself, “I am Troy, and today I want to be …” and this is the truth about Troy. So if Tesk can only answer “Tesk,” does that make him better than me or worse. Red Settlement 14 ( The Red Sun Over The Red Hill )
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Red Settlement 13: Dreamt About Raspberry
It's the only story that makes sense: Rustic, nouvelle, fusion, it all accretes and nothing is forgotten. Red Settlement 13
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Red Settlement 12: I Put On My Wolf Look
So I have to make the effort to do things I don't want to do to people I don't want, and there's nowhere else to put me. Down, like a dog. Like a wolf on the outskirts. Red Settlement 12
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Red Settlement 11: The Pirates Are Infrared
Please Your Honor how far from (0.2N, 2.5W) to (24.8N, 164W) and will they be there when I come? Red Settlement 11
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Red Settlement 10: I'm Biting The Neon
But like everybody was saying it's going to be so bad, so scary, rapes galore and being somebody's bitch and I said so like the soccer team? Red Settlement 10
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Red Settlement 9: At Night When We Dream
I found out later he'd been to Chess's as well, which was probably his undoing. Chess's mother would put even Brother Reader off the Book. Red Settlement 9
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Red Settlement 8: None Among Us Has Not Despaired
This is a kind of love; it is the love of the Book. It is not my burden to ask how a parent could let those marks obscure the face of someone conceived in love and in the Book. Red Settlement 8 ( None Among Us Has Not Despaired )
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Red Settlement 7: World Shakes In The Black
Not being able to picture anything right how are you supposed to imagine life. I wish there was a brochure Your Honor. Suggestion box. Red Settlement 7
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Red Settlement 6: Sid The Knife
After the fifth one they said it's either Edison medicine or -- and the guy looked at his supervisor -- you go Red? I said you mean declare and I laughed in their faces but they said not exactly. Red Settlement 6 ( Sid The Knife )
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