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The Desperado Calls
I was told to forget the desperado in the balaclava, but it had the opposite effect. I contacted four or five motels, had sketched out a possible escape route. Suddenly he rang, I…
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Draw Something Funny
It was blowing a gale and we stayed indoors. For lack of anything better to do she handed me a sheet of paper and a pen. Draw something funny, she said, and I began to scribble. The sky was manuring snow against the window. Large flakes stuck fast. A siren came towards us, faded and came towards us again. All that I remember with certainty. Someone knocked at the door, pounded hard, shouted: Come out! The harbour floats towards the sea!
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A Capricious Guitar Solo
The other girl appeared only in the way you treated me, as if you had rehearsed everything but not followed through with the action. To make you feel better I described your laugh…
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All That Slipped Away
Everyone else has written something. I need to as well. They read their texts aloud. About different rooms from childhood. How they remember double curtains, the creak of a lift…