Nine Island by Jane Alison

Author:Jane Alison
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 2016-06-30T04:00:00+00:00

SIRENS SCREAMED everywhere on the way home, trucks raging red over Alton and Dade. Smoke tumbled into the sky.

New notice in the mail room: old board out, new board in.

Good riddance! said Lino in the elevator. Told you I’d get rid of them.

He smiled with overlarge, overwhite teeth, eyes pink and small, a rabbit’s.

SEE THE FOLLOWING in blurred blue light, please, and please play it fast:

Devil takes a cab from the airport, sending curt message with thumbs as he rides. Devil gets in the building, gets in the door, has long arms and legs spidering around me at once, trips me down on the bed. Mirrored walls watch—all this in blue light. Drinks are drunk on the balcony, smoke sent in rings from his jaws to the sky. Cab is taken Beachward, scotch drunk by Devil, sunny magenta Camparis by me. Devil rarely meets my eyes, although when I catch his shady violet ones they are always looking and glance away fast. Punish him by making him come in by the Dumpsters. So N won’t see, or Virgil. Ovid wouldn’t like what he saw. Or at least what I remember, because this is what I do with the Devil: make sure I won’t remember.

Bottles on the floor, twisted cloth, smoke.

Devil departs early as he talks on the phone, flush with the deal he’s struck with the Heat. Striding past the girl-trees by the chlorine fountain, he flicks a cigarette at their bark.

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