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Fiction: Start the Clock, by Benjamin Rosenbaum by Dolemite at 10:48 am EST, Jan 19, 2005 |
] In the stairway, I said, "You couldn't just watch a porn ] channel?" ] ] "It's not the same," she said. "That's all packaged and ] commercial. I wanted to interview them before and after. ] I have to know -- what it's like." ] ] "Why?" ] ] She paused on the stairs, and I stopped too. The ] muscleboys, muttering, went out onto the street, and we ] were alone in the flashing green and red light. ] ] "Suze, I'm going to start the clock." ] ] Like she'd poured a bucket of ice water down my spine. ] "You're what?" ] ] "I'm going to take the treatments." She spoke quickly, as ] if afraid I'd interrupt her. "They've gotten much better ] in the past couple of years, there are basically no side ] effects. They're even making headway with infants. In ] five years, it looks like most babies won't have any ] arrestation effects at all, and -- " ] ] Tears had sprung to my eyes. "What are you talking ] about?" I cried. "Why are you talking like them? Why are ] you talking like being like us is something to be cured?" ] I punched the wall, which hurt my hand. I sat down on the ] step and cried. ] ] "Suze," Abby said. She sat down next to me and put her ] hand on my shoulder. "I love being like us -- but I want ] --" ] ] "That?" I shouted, pointing up to the top of the stairs, ] where they were grunting again. "That's what you want? ] You'd rather have that than us?" ] ] "I want everything, Suze. I want every stage of life --" ] ] "Oh, every stupid stage, as designed by stupid God, who ] also gave us death and cancer, and --" ] ] She grabbed my shoulders. "Suze, listen. I want to know ] what that up there is like. Maybe I won't like it, and ] then I won't do it. But Suze, I want to have babies." A neat new short story of Sci-Fi released under the Creative Commons license. |
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RE: Fiction: Start the Clock, by Benjamin Rosenbaum by Vile at 12:06 am EST, Jan 20, 2005 |
Dolemite wrote: ] ] In the stairway, I said, "You couldn't just watch a porn ] ] channel?" ] ] ] ] "It's not the same," she said. "That's all packaged and ] ] commercial. I wanted to interview them before and after. ] ] I have to know -- what it's like." ] ] ] ] "Why?" ] ] ] ] She paused on the stairs, and I stopped too. The ] ] muscleboys, muttering, went out onto the street, and we ] ] were alone in the flashing green and red light. ] ] ] ] "Suze, I'm going to start the clock." ] ] ] ] Like she'd poured a bucket of ice water down my spine. ] ] "You're what?" ] ] ] ] "I'm going to take the treatments." She spoke quickly, as ] ] if afraid I'd interrupt her. "They've gotten much better ] ] in the past couple of years, there are basically no side ] ] effects. They're even making headway with infants. In ] ] five years, it looks like most babies won't have any ] ] arrestation effects at all, and -- " ] ] ] ] Tears had sprung to my eyes. "What are you talking ] ] about?" I cried. "Why are you talking like them? Why are ] ] you talking like being like us is something to be cured?" ] ] I punched the wall, which hurt my hand. I sat down on the ] ] step and cried. ] ] ] ] "Suze," Abby said. She sat down next to me and put her ] ] hand on my shoulder. "I love being like us -- but I want ] ] --" ] ] ] ] "That?" I shouted, pointing up to the top of the stairs, ] ] where they were grunting again. "That's what you want? ] ] You'd rather have that than us?" ] ] ] ] "I want everything, Suze. I want every stage of life --" ] ] ] ] "Oh, every stupid stage, as designed by stupid God, who ] ] also gave us death and cancer, and --" ] ] ] ] She grabbed my shoulders. "Suze, listen. I want to know ] ] what that up there is like. Maybe I won't like it, and ] ] then I won't do it. But Suze, I want to have babies." ] ] ] A neat new short story of Sci-Fi released under the Creative ] Commons license. Creative Commons? A jew who doesn't care about the money? Has hell frozen over? |
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