\u201cHe shook me awake saying, The most horrible thing has happened. The most horrible<\/i> thing has happened! Y- just sucked N-\u2018s dick. I took a video.\u201d The porch was crowded with people sharing cigarettes and thin beer in red disposable plastic cups. The woman telling the story shook her head, laughing a little, her black tank top beginning to slip from one shoulder. \u201cAnd then he showed it to me, the video, right there on the little screen.\u201d Her audience, a woman with short blue and silver hair and matching make-up, pretty like she just sucked down an electric milkshake, nodded as if she wasn’t quite sure what she\u2019d just gotten into then looked over to Y-. A strong, swarthy man, dark haired and handsome in a rough sort of way, Y- is an incredible creature, a literal tomcat, endlessly affectionate, but with a streak of easy, distractible violence when he\u2019s been drinking, a living testament to Hunter S. Thompson\u2019s writing. When he talks, he sounds just like Tom Waits. \u201cWhy would you do that?\u201d the blue woman asked him, incredulous, but wary, tight, as if she didn\u2019t want to admit she was curious or maybe about to laugh. He shrugged, as expressive as a train-wreck at a thousand frames per second, and replied, very matter-of-fact, \u201cBecause N- said I could have sex with her if I sucked her boyfriend\u2019s dick and then they gave me a yellow pill that they said was ecstasy and it made me gay.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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