I, Zombie by Al Ewing

Author:Al Ewing
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction
Publisher: Abaddon Books

- and six foot of Bogart/Bowie pure pale blue-white flesh shock-white hair walking through the door and every inch of him cold and decadent and ignoring all the lust and need and the backlash bitching and milking that goddamn Bowie bullshit everyone expects of him these days and maybe that's why he does it -

- and Roscoe stands up slowly and heads to the office in the back that Gary said he could use whenever he was speeding and stressed and needed a place to be alone, thank God for Gary, and he closes the door on the music and the talk and the bullshit and just sits behind the desk in that little office and rests his head on his hands and waits and wants to cry -

- and Roscoe thinks back to him and Johnny Doe lying in bed listening to the couple in the apartment upstairs screaming at each other and how Johnny wanted to know who he was and what he was and everything and Roscoe with his head full of dope smoke saying anything that came into his head and still freaking out on that experience and on Johnny's cold space muscle and Bogie eyes and smile and making all kinds of promises -

- and he wishes now he'd never said a word -

- and Roscoe took all kinds of samples out of Johnny, like skin samples and blood samples and stool and hair and listened to the heartbeat Johnny didn't have and listened up over coffee to ten years of Johnny's life story, starting off in a cheap apartment on Haight-Ashbury, dealing acid and reds until Altamont shot down the hippie dream and he came east to the Village to lose himself and melt into the first culture he found and before that he hated hippies like poison and hunted Reds behind the cold dark whiskey sour desk of a private eye, Bogie not Bowie in those days and before that he fought in the war like everyone else and before that he ran hooch and hung out with Dorothy and before that well it doesn't matter but there's a lot of before that you can keep a secret right Emmett right -

- and Roscoe had heard some weird coming-out stories in his time but Johnny's was the oddest, coming on like he didn't care about nothing except fitting in to whatever scene would have him, so he asked all the right questions and a few crazy ones and heard things that made his blood run like ice and killed his hard lust dead as arctic tundra, things like Johnny saying he snuck into the morgue sometimes and ate brains -

- and Jesus Christ, Johnny admitted he ate brains and why the hell didn't Roscoe call the cops right then except maybe this was his last chance to do something right with his life and this was too big to let go of -

- and Roscoe nearly freaked out and called the cops or

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