The Last Bender, Chapter 46
CHAPTER FORTY-SIX It was a long while before I put the binoculars down and when I did, the dome disappeared. I figured it had to be the glasses. Just like the radio. A trick. I...
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CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN I lowered the gun. His eyes made me do it. They were sunken and dark, but very clear. In their light I felt ashamed. A middle-aged man clipping grass with a little silver...
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CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT Beneath the heads sat Stronghole, in a glass chair at a glass table, reading a book. He had his usual military bearing; that had not relaxed since coming to the dome. But...
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CHAPTER FORTY-NINE My room was located not far from St. Claude’s suite, on level 1, which he shared with Evalyn. It was a plain glass chamber with only one head. The ambient light was the...
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CHAPTER FIFTY “He’s using us,” she said. We lay in a double ess. The heat of our two bodies pressed together radiated into the room. My face was in her hair, my arm draped...
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CHAPTER FIFTY-ONE That night, when a commotion in the halls woke me up, I thought, almost with relief, here we go. I had had a pretty good run of luck. They didn’t get me in the war, and the...
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CHAPTER FIFTY-TWO “How’s Linda?” I asked. “Alive,” she said, looking around at the glass walls. When her eyes landed on a head she stuck her tongue out and barked, “What is this...
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CHAPTER FIFTY-THREE The deck of the ship rose and fell against the glittering blue and jasper waves. Helen and Linda sat on reclining wooden chairs across from Evalyn and me. Captain Beldam’s face...
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A NOTE TO THE READER: Isle of Dogs is Volume Two of Drift, a multivolume saga set in a world that was first described in the novel The Man Who Can’t Die (Whiskey Tit, 2016). It is the immediate...
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David Rovics, a musician, writer, and independent producer of conversations with artists, interviewed me today for his show.
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