Flesh for Punktown: A Trio of Dark Science Fiction Stories (The Jeffrey Thomas Chapbook Series 3) by Jeffrey Thomas

Author:Jeffrey Thomas [Thomas, Jeffrey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Forma Street Press
Published: 2019-07-29T06:00:00+00:00

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1: Punktown

It wasn’t as though there wasn’t already pain to be had in Punktown. Pain was the city’s quintessence. The wealthy and empowered, however – normally insulated from street level suffering – sometimes chose to experience pain on their own terms. Somehow it was more acceptable, that is desirable, to be beaten bloody by a beautiful mutant in a corset than beaten bloody by a homeless mutant in need of drug money. There was still a sense of control in such a situation, even when what drove the person seeking pain was the allure of loss of control. Some merely flirted at the edge of the cliff, while others plunged from the order of their clean existence into the wellspring of chaos, trusting it was a pool they could return from if they just kept their head above water.

Clubs and establishments for those with a taste for pain – either given or received, or both – were spread throughout the enormous city, which had been built by Earth colonists on the world they called Oasis but had since then filled with immigrants from countless other planets. Among those clubs that catered to jaded tastes was The Poison Apple, on Folger Street, where the nude dancers were dead bodies animated by a series of implants manipulated by a nervojockey. There were rumors of a similar club called Low where the animated corpses were those of young children. There were brothels both modest and grandiose, chief among the latter being the licensed and multi-floored Solon, in which whole levels were devoted to B&D, S&M. Yet still, with familiarity, sojourners into chaos might grow bored with even such offerings. Numbness returned; dissatisfaction filled sterile hours. There were those who were ever on a quest to discover the next thrill or flavor. To experience that much more.

Some of these yearning sojourners learned that a new place, a traveling place called Painfreak – most recently found in the city of Miniosis, and before that on far Earth – had made its way to Punktown.

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