In Extremis: The Most Extreme Short Stories of John Shirley by John Shirley

Author:John Shirley [Shirley, John]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
ISBN: 9780982663950
Publisher: Perseus Books Group
Published: 2011-08-09T04:00:00+00:00

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Darla? Um . . . Darla?

Yeah, Hello. Darla?

It’s Georgine.

Yeah look I couldn’t talk about this with you, like, in person?

I hope it’s okay I just wanna like, leave a message on your machine?

Listen, it wasn’t my decision, it wasn’t my choice to kill your sister, it was Tush, it was her thing, she goes, “Stop being a baby.”

And she tells me I bitch about people saying I’m a bitch and people just assume and here I’m acting like a wimp, whining because she was going to put her in that thing and . . . . She was running that whole fucked up trip on me, Darla.

And she goes, Tush goes, “Darla’s little Tandy wantsa get into mutilating herself, let’s go all the way . . . I mean, you know she wants to die . . . she’s like, tried to commit suicide five times . . .”

I told her, I go, “If she wanted to commit suicide really she’d be dead by now. It’s like it was never serious?”

But she didn’t listen. She has that . . . she has that dominance thing . . . and it’s like . . . she told me what her counselor, that she’s trying to get out from under something by getting people in shit as deep as she can . . .

You know?

So I said, “Don’t put her in there, don’t put her in that . . .”

I mean, it was at the junkyard after midnight where we go to smoke bongs and sometimes we get some black tar and . . . you know? You better erase this after you hear it . . .

So I said “Tush, that’s—I’m not signing that check, bitch, putting somebody in one of those car compactor things . . . I mean if she wants to commit suicide she wants it to be painless—”

But Tush goes, “She’s totally fuckin’ numbed out from the pills I gave her anyway, it’s like heavy Tuinal and codeine, she won’t feel shit, I just wanna see how it looks afterwards . . .”

Her Dad, Tush’s dad, he’s just the same he’s got that same . . . that same thing . . .

He’s, like, an LAPD cop and he used to handcuff Tush when she was acting out and stuff . . .

Anyway they were saying—I swear to God—they were saying that they were going to put me in there too, in that machine, if I didn’t shut up and then Tush said she heard the spirits of the people killed in the car accidents from all the smashed junkyard cars around us . . . you know how she goes there and gets stoned and says she talks to the ghosts of people that died in those cars . . . and the spirits were asking her to put Tandy in the car compactor and I couldn’t even cruise with that, serious, and I’m from Venice Beach ,I mean we’ve seen it all . . .

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