The Garbage Times - White Ibis by Sam Pink

Author:Sam Pink [Pink, Sam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781593766818
Publisher: Soft Skull Press
Published: 2018-07-15T04:00:00+00:00

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Dotty loved the new home.

There were tiny lizards everywhere.

So many little lizards.

Everywhere you went, there’d be a bunch of lizards running around.

Running across the ground in front of you, going up a tree, into some brush, or pausing on the hot deck and looking around like ‘Woo!’

And Dotty loved to kill them.

Every one of them.

But not this one on the deck.

She didn’t kill this one.

She just injured it a little, then continued knocking it around lightly with her paw.

Every time it tried to escape—one leg broken and trailing behind it—Dotty just pawed it back towards herself.

Eventually, the lizard stopped trying to escape and just stood there facing her.

It went from trying to escape to standing and facing her, making itself look a little larger, posing.

Its red gill thing coming out.

It was fucking deep.

So proud and brave.

Even Dotty was confused for a second.

This lizard was for real.

It looked up at her, gill things puffed out, like, ‘All right, all right yeah, big tough guy, let’s have it. [wipes nose] You wanna pick on someone? Yeah ok, all right, pick on me, tough guy, go ahead and—’ but Dotty just mangled it some more.

She left it broken and mostly dead, on its back, barely breathing.

She licked her paw and cleaned her face.

‘Goddamnit, Dotty,’ I said.

My girl said, ‘What is it?’

She was standing naked on the deck, sunbathing, holding the handrail.

‘The fuckin lizard’s still alive.’

‘Oh no,’ she said, holding her chest. ‘You have to kill it then.’

‘I don’t wanna kill it.’

‘You have to.’

‘Goddamnit, Dotty,’ I said, taking off my boot.

Dotty licked her paw, staring on, like, ‘Yes, finish my deed, stooge.’

I smashed the lizard’s head with the heel of my boot.

Its guts came out its sides.

Fuck.

You tried, you tried.

I get it.

Sometimes you just gotta pick a place and say, ‘Right here. Here’s where it happens. Right here.’

Gills out, boss, gills out.

R.I.P.

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