IXL.

 

- I saw master's book. It's been published since sHe disappeared. Queenie

told me he'd seen it in a bookstore online. I downloaded a bit of it. It's

about stories about language, sHe's translated them into pictures using a

limited palate of the old ascii standard. It's very clever.

- Isn't that praising with faint damnation.

- No, you have it arse over tit.

- Mmmmm

- Though sometimes I think I'll see him in the street if I just look at the

right time, I think sHe's gone to Australia.

- I am on my way there now. Shall I look for her?

- No. As you can see, my belongings are packed. I was going to look for

her myself. But now I think sHe will never find her way back. Perhaps sHe

adopts the narrative convenience of amnesia. And you also will return

again different.

- We only have another day, it seems fated that way. I worry we may not

meet again.

- No, I've met you before, I'll meet you again I'm sure is the fated. Worry

not.

 

Lynx and her interlocutor hurl themselves onto the bed. She grabs his hair

and begins placing her mouth over every part of his face in turn. "You are

not allowed to move," she tells him, "If you move, I shall be forced to

restrain you."

"I will be perfectly still," he says. "your words alone are enough to send

me rigid."

She starts at his neck and drags a damp line to an ear. The one on the

left it looks like. Whereupon she seems to bite it gently, taking the lobe

between her teeth inhaling chunks of air from around his head.

She suddenly feels hungry again.

 

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pre-face