Kissssss: A Miscellany
Steve Katz
Language: English
Pages: 257
ISBN: B00DL9947W
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
hardware clumsiness. She liked hardware problems because they made her feel more substantial. One of the minuses she had to accept in her profession was a frustration arising from how difficult it was to be real, really real in the world while working with computers. It came to pass as time went by that Joe’s attention to Nelly’s instruction turned to an attention to Nelly herself. Because of his size he was aware of how he could intimidate, so he was always very careful, particularly when
loved. He had a huggy mom who was a good mom, and a dad who was always there to teach him something. His dad would have taught him something right now, would have helped him get out of here. He called out, “Hello! Anybody. Dad!” but he knew the cry was futile. His voice flattened back against his face, going nowhere. This whiteness was as if overnight the whole world had been erased, and turned to cold. Was it a world? What kind of a place was this? Not a sound in it, except his own hiccups that
late, that he’d better get to work on a tree before the pod launched, and that maybe he really didn’t know enough about this to do it right. Maybe he was too young and too small. He took out his special heat blade, and held it in the sunlight till it was too hot to touch, then launched himself off the ledge, onto the leaf, and he slid down to where it joined the top of the tree. His flesh was green in the reflected light. He looked out into the valley, now totally free of fog, a whole valley of
empty ritual. He was confident Eukan would be back in time. He had raised a responsible boy. However he wasn’t so confident his wife would get back with the van in time for him to shop for a new picnic table, the old one an embarrassment, rotten and collapsed. Part of Yerml’s sweetness was that she was so vague, and it didn’t really register with her that he might need the van. She seemed oblivious to the fact that stores would close, days could end, people had deadlines, and even that someone
the ceiling like a rock star working his fans, and he has his fans in the audience who chant “Dan-ny, Dan-ny.” He grabs the mic from Molly’s grip, gives her a big stage grin. She is startled but a good sport. She embraces and dances him around, kissing his neck until he breaks loose and starts to sing one of his three songs. “I’m too sexy for this song, too sexy for this song…” Rodney’s spasms are re-ignited by this new energy, and he goes hurtling across the floor. His jeans are loose, and flap