Showing posts with label dark fantasy. Show all posts
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Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Chapter 8: Marilyn Monroe's Tits


I’m dressed up like zombie Michael Jackson. The shiny red jumpsuit getup and everything. Tabitha is dressed up like Elvira, even though she doesn’t have the tits or hips for Elvira.
We’re over at Eli’s apartment, drinking before we go to out to the bars, and I think I might already be drunk. Sometimes it’s hard for me to tell, but I keep bumping my knees on the coffee table when I get up to grab another beer and I just managed to spill Keystone Light all over Marilyn Monroe’s tits. I think those are pretty good signs that I’m drunk.
“You need any help, baby?” I ask Tabitha. She’s helping wipe beer off Marilyn’s tits. They are nice big tits, and I’m jealous.
Tabitha just rolls her eyes at me and keeps wiping.
“There there,” she says to Marilyn, whose white dress now has a piss-yellow spill down the front. “I’m sure it’ll wash out. Why don’t you go back in the bedroom and take it off, and I’ll throw it in the washer.”
“Okay,” Marilyn says, and she goes ahead and pulls the dress off right there in the kitchen.

X


There are three zombies standing with me in the kitchen, but I’m the only zombie Michael Jackson, so that makes me happy.
One of the zombies, who has a screwdriver in his neck, says, “Where’s your white glove, man?”
“It’s in my pocket. I took it off because it was hot.”
“You should wear the white glove,” says a second zombie, who has an exposed eye socket.
“Michael Jackson doesn’t wear a white glove in the zombie scene of Thriller,” I say.
“You don’t really look like Michael Jackson without the glove,” the first zombie says. “You just look like a dork with a Jheri curl.”
I burp beer and pretend I didn’t hear him.
Fucking zombies.


Chapter 11: Killing Derby


So how should I go about killing Derby?
I don’t really want to kill him, but I guess by now I’m committed to it.
I’m sitting in my apartment and the sofa’s too bright and the Edvard Munch print on my wall is all blurry because I’m crying. What kind of cruel world is it that forces me to kill my own dog?
I’m sitting on the sofa, and the rabbits are filling my head with their cruel, bright laughter.
Haha, they say.
Do it, Fred. Do it. Kick her head in.
Derby’s a him.
Kick HIS head in, then.
I hate these fucking bunnies. It’s their fault I even have to do this — kill Derby. They’re making me do it, making me murder my favorite pet just to cover their asses. Which is crazy; I’m killing the dog I made up to protect the anonymity of the rabbits living in my head. Tell me that ain’t fucked up.
What’s even more fucked up? I always wanted a dog; I never wanted the rabbits.
Tell me that ain’t irony.