{"id":992,"date":"2004-10-29T15:55:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-29T15:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2004\/10\/29\/never-any-warning\/"},"modified":"2004-10-29T15:55:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-29T15:55:00","slug":"never-any-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2004\/10\/29\/never-any-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"never any warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\">It&#8217;s been a strange and bitter week. <em>she flicks her eyes up to his and holds them. &#8220;would you like to spend the night at my place?&#8221; she knows exactly what she asks and how much this means. &nbsp; her voice denies it, but his blood knows.<\/em> I knew I was in serious trouble when an hour into my second pyro tech class, I was morbidly hallucinating. I put my hand to my head and took it away covered in brain-flesh and writhing&nbsp;maggots.&nbsp;The classroom seemed threatening. After the first break, I sat myself down in a softer chair, one against the wall. In the darkness, I fell asleep very briefly only to jerk awake from a&nbsp;dream of midget prostitutes stabbing me with syringes made of sharp enamel teeth with burned edges. I wish I was kidding, I wish that was overstatement. <em>her hand vibrates with light, every molecule a different frequency. It&#8217;s painful, but not in any quantifiable way. she only knows that if she touches anything, it will dissolve into sound. in her mind, she finds her husband. <\/em>I have a party planned this Saturday which I think is going to fail miserably. I&#8217;m being blown off by my friends for a fetish night. A fetish night that I would be on the guest list for&nbsp;if I hadn&#8217;t already had a party foisted upon me. The depression just grows, my lovelies. If I had known that there would be friends there Saturday, I would have decided upon that. Some certified relief from the nasties that populate such places. One day I will get used to being forgotten. Perhaps I&#8217;ll even manage to go an entire week without being stood up. <em>blue eyes, blue eyes, he&#8217;s singing to himself, remembering what she looked like when he shuddered on top of her. what a night, he thinks, what a bloody good night. he turns, closing the handle of the door. next time I might even pay her, he thinks. <\/em>I picked up my paycheques earlier today and brought them to the bank. The way my account is set up, I need to make my transaction with a teller rather than the machine if I am to pay my rent and as well get groceries. The line-up was entirely made up of men, and the one fourth down in line picked me out immediately as someone he approved of. Long silver hair and a gore-tex jacket. The older Used To Be&nbsp;A Hippie, still kind, still hitting on younger women who don&#8217;t mind all that much. He talked to me and I gave him candy from my pocket. &#8220;Trick or treat&#8221;. Our discussion eventually included another man, a taller fellow, with wire thin frames and shaved down hair. We talked about how today is the 75th anniversary of the Stock Market Crash, space-flight advances, and physics. Solar Flares wiping the magnetic memory of everything on Earth. The two of them waited for me afterward, standing by the door. I watched out of the corner of my eye as they made their introductions. Together they asked me out for coffee. Today I said no.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a strange and bitter week. she flicks her eyes up to his and holds them. &#8220;would you like to spend the night at my place?&#8221; she knows exactly what she asks and how much this means. &nbsp; her voice denies it, but his blood knows. 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