Chapter 2 - The Haunted Soda
ConversazioniThe Haunted Soda: A Yarn in 3 Parts by the Literati of LT
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2localpeanut
Questo messaggio è stato cancellato dall'autore.
6ExVivre
Smithers, seeing my distraction, dove
(Edited to note that BTRIPP made me choke from laughing.)
(Edited to note that BTRIPP made me choke from laughing.)
8radiantarchangelus
train - overcoat spread like wings
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flapping in a sea of
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fried lungs are hard to
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fix and so I reluctantly
19localpeanut
breakfast. So I boiled water
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with a glass of tequila
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touch of crisp shoe leather.
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However, I was able to
40MyopicBookworm
. Abruptly the soda can levitated
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with a swig of Fanta
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, inconvenient laughter. "Damn giggles!" cried
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came off and reality returned.
50bookishbunny
The can lost its hold
51localpeanut
on the lubricant in the
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yelled at the top of
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the heck am I? How
64radiantarchangelus
"22 Sir," she replied snidely.
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22 what? Months, years, or
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dog's ages? Mary smiled sardonically
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replied with an awful smirk,
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panting like a parched pooch.
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until we stopped at "Cashier".
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your hangover can be surgically
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almost unbearable intense pleasure, because
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hangovers mean you're alive. Scanning
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criss-crossing inputs and outputs,
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stretching her mandible below her
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the corner of the dead
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into the real world, finally.
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reversed. There is, however, one
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more thing before exiting halucina-ville
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: risperidone and Fanta don't mix!
101localpeanut
marshmallow Peeps on vanilla ice
104localpeanut
in Oswald's brain? I cough
111MyopicBookworm
Reassuringly, Mary's saxophone, distantly audible,
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stubbed my toe against the
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tire. Mary materialized before me.
118radiantarchangelus
Questo messaggio è stato cancellato dall'autore.
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shimmering obeject on the dashboard
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caught my attention, even though
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"Cop car? With keys? No
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donuts by the dashboard lights?"
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began to hammer my tormented
130localpeanut
move! Jesus' mouth was moving
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, muskets ablaze and buttons gleaming
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. He wore grey and blue
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striped boxers and an outrageous
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zebra striped fedora hazardously perched
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at his deforested scalp when
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My stomach growled guiltily. Smithers
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to do the polka justice
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what with that wooden leg
164radiantarchangelus
face shiny and eggplant hued
165localpeanut
. This isn't Smithers, I thought.
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Freudian slip, mistaking Mary for
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Hoping to revive Mary, I
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and Yabba Dabba Doo!" It
181localpeanut
,saying: You need a plot
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"Calm down, dear," said Smithers
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surrounding this desolate and dreary
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top up my nicotine levels
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And so we took off
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of the best absinthe I've
199bookishbunny
Piling into the cop car,
202localpeanut
we sped across the bridge.
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creation was my next coffee
211bookishbunny
But breakfast ended at 10:00!
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After that Smithers lunch, danish
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and coffee smacked of reality
218surfergirl10
screamed, Mary, pink, tequilla, elephants
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stay at the Drake Hotel.
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"Single rooms!", said Mary, archly
228bookishbunny
. I countered with, "Double beds!"
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names. The Senator might be
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out of the car with
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dignity. Gas purchased, I followed
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Drake's lobby, where a bellhop
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eagerly took our luggage and
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provided us glossy brochures to
253The_Other_Reader
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hear? You and Mary carrying
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soda across the state line
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. Don't you know that it
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us dashed across the street
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, gusts of Chicago wind blowing
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Black Hand, a crime syndicate
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We looked at each other
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covertly. Did Smithers look shifty?
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Did Mary look back seductively?
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These were all questions to
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life's persistence quest, an orange
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especially as it held the
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diary purportedly containing information about
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that bag before we get
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Braving the hail pelting down
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on to the rail, while
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squirmed through the half-open window
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dripping on the carpet and
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but I knew rightaway that
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"What a goddess!" I thought,
305localpeanut
except for that moustache on
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her lip, imitating "Pops" Fizzoli,
edited to correct daddy's name
edited to correct daddy's name
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I nodded the admission, and stammered,
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the Fanta, quick! And the