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End of the Affair

Well, that just about sums it up. Maude’s fallen asleep, snoring, and I can’t find my ear plugs! Then I see we have a text from Pushkin, who, naturally, is always up at this time of night… There is a link to a site in Cyrillic, and some rather grisly photos, followed by this rather …

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Simon’s Things

Junky hires a magician to cast away his demon… ends up dead in a burning circle of white powder. Scratch humour Claire was about to move house and city when she came across the box with Simon’s things in the cupboard under the stairs Claire, who was no longer in theatre, had met Simon through …

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Assignations

“The banker of the tale had an invitation to dinner on the top floor. At the door of the lift someone handed him a mask, whereupon he found himself in a room full of masked dignitaries. Up on a stage, surrounded by tables serving sushi and other delicacies, were two unmasked and naked lap dancers. …

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Necessary Angel

“What do you think?” I said. “I put my heart and soul into it.” – “Well,” she said, twisting a curl of hair around her little finger, “I still think you could do a hell of a lot better.” The conversation inside his head ran along the following lines. Why don’t you get a job, …

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The Pitch (Black Angel)

“Honestly,” she said with a sigh, “I never could bring myself to meet any of those people… but they were always on the edge of my nightmares.” In a hotel room in the West End, between promotional duties for a project that he had come to dislike with a young up and coming actress who …

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No News, Julia’s News

Meanwhile in the private room of the Dorian Grey, a Hamburg nightclub, she became virtually acquainted with her double First there was no news and then there was Julia’s news. The card of a beached fishing smack was sent from Corfu where she’d met a Birmingham boy called Scott, master of torque settings, and scourge …

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Notes on an Exhibition

Guido, I wish that you and Lupo and IWere carried off by magic 1#2I82-3: Book of Skulls and Bones As a teenager, I bought into the whole business of denim jackets, long hair and air-guitars. My elder brother, Sam, who was, by contrast, a new wave fan, used to take the piss out of my …

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Culture Shock (Or barely breathing)

Why am I always cutting myself? On aspect and tense, Junk Press21 The Doc sat in one of the pews with his hands together; if not in prayer, but by way of imprecation. Then, perhaps out of habit, he crossed himself and stood up. He walked out of the church. He did not meet a …

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The Q-tips

The gambiarras master made a pneumograph to measure Canario’s heartbeat. During the experiment he asked Canario to drink some water and sing. Under the squiggly line made by Canario’s heartbeat he drew arrows: AGUA CANTOU Jimmy had fourth grade piano and several years of choir practice; Renton who I was jealous of used to play …

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Horse with No Name

Thereafter I was to think of him as a horse with no name, a lion without a mane. In April, several years and several months after J’s disappearance, on Boxing Day, 1999, from a recording studio in Clapham, a horse purporting to work for one of the music magazines she never read anymore phoned up …

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