Friday, June 20, 2008

  • No fate. No future. No evidence.

    "All I'm saying is that's a fine piece of ass. I never had sex with no dead body though," Vincent said propped up on a shovel handle as Howl stood over the trunk of the primer-grey Pontiac.
        "When did that come up?" He snaked his tie underneath the third button of his shirt and rolled the sleeves to the biceps. "Though I'll be honest with you. If an asteroid was hurling towards the Earth, I'd fight you to fuck her."
        "That's sick."
        "You thought it first." Vincent nodded philosophically and then gave Howl a hand. Together they brought the stripper out of the trunk. "What's the shovel for?"
        Vincent squinted up into absolute white.
        "We're not digging a hole big enough for a leggy girl like her with our bare hands."
        Howl reached into the trunk and produced a garbage bag with a lumpy mass inside.
        "See, this is exactly the kind of breakdown in communication that always keeps us just barely out of reach of our fortune. And cost us two-grand."
        "You brought the bitch home. She has my fucking Remy. What's in the bag?" Howl answered him by doing a magic trick of sorts, only instead of rabbits he pulled out Ziploc bags of bacon and pig's blood, and tossed Vincent a pair of latex gloves.
        "Look where we are. There's mountain lions and coyotes and stray dogs and vultures out here." There was something poetic about the wild blue desolation, small stoic scrub coarse and prickling unfettered against every last inch of sky in every direction. But then Howl and Vincent were stooped down rubbing a dead stripper with strips of raw bacon.
        "This is sick," Vincent finally said after he stuck a strip in her armpit. "So how was work?"
        Howl scraped his arm across his forehead.
        "Makes me want to kill myself. Those monkeys can only stand it 'cuz they haven't seen people die. Give me this over that any day." Vincent seemed to hunker down on what Howl had said for a moment before telling him, "That's the difference between you and me. I'm just along for the ride. Hand me the blood." Howl didn't seem particularly impressed and passed the Ziploc bulging with blood, which Vincent drizzled over the stripper's chest.
        "She's not a salad, just dump it on her."

    [back] No fate. No future. No GED.
    [forward] No fate. No future. No acquaintance.
    [forward] No fate. No future. No mercy.
    [forward] No fate. No future. No heiress.
    [forward] No fate. No future. No Columbine.
    [forward] No fate. No future. No compensation.
    [forward] No fate. No future. No gossip.

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