Claiming T-Mo by Eugen Bacon

Author:Eugen Bacon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Meerkat Press, LLC
Published: 2019-07-26T19:10:31+00:00

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Transition.

So they are. Vida and Myra. She is half-alien to his humanness. Her Grovean mantle is strange, it is shifting, sometimes disquieting. Sometimes it is intense right there. It is that Grovean thing that makes people talk. But Vida doesn’t care.

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Myra took him to the house on the hill, the manor that climbed. Took him up ironed balustrades, C-shapes and S-curls. His hand followed the curves and twirls all the way to Myra’s bedroom. Despite her denial of femininity, Girls are bitches, she had said, she was a girl. There were mirrors and frames, shelves and hooks. Whimsical lights gave the textured wall a muted hue that cast a soft gold upon the geometric pattern on the floor rug. The bed had latticed pillows and throws—fuchsia, lavender and taupe—petal-edged. By the window, beside a floor-to-ceiling drape—ribboned—a large-leafed plant with tints of scarlet and bronze brought the room to life.

It was a jealous plant named Red, and it was very territorial. Soon as it saw Vida accompanying Myra, it started to wag, swell up and clack. And then it sang, morosely, for Vida:

He’s a jolly keen fellow

Oh, jolly keen fellow,

Deny, deny?

Jolly keen fellow,

Deny, deny?

“Stop being petty,” said Myra. “Vida’s not replacing you.”

Red turned to a wilt. Took an hour before it responded to Vida’s touch, and when it did, it squirted dye on him.

“You really have to stop this,” said Myra, and Red promptly went into a Spindly Vida, Leggedy Vida song. It sang in a baritone. Its sweet, harshless music of ascending and descending melody was weak and airy in parts, before it swelled to slapstick flourish, operatic. Spindly Vida, Jiggety! Red extended and held the last note.

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