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June 20, 2013
113. “How to bungle an assault”
He jumps to his feet and stands...
113. “How to bungle an assault”
He jumps to his feet and stands still, staring us down as if tensed to pounce, like the little she-wolf I’ve seen so often inside him; and something about his lone presence down here and the tilt of his sunglasses prompts me to cock the most powerful, intrusive and hypnotic gaze, right behind my eyes, ready for deployment at an instant’s notice.
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Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 113: Jaymi and Alaia run into Angel, whose manner is highly charged and unpredictable. When Jaymi refuses Angel’s plea for help against Lucan, Angel reaches for his gun. Angel is close enough for Jaymi to be able to rip the dark glasses off Angel’s face and direct a blast of hypnotic power into his eyes. However, Angel is wearing mirrored contact lenses and Jaymi’s power bounces right back at him, almost knocking him over: something is short-circuited, and Jaymi’s special sight is suddenly gone.
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June 19, 2013
112. “Stealing evidence from the crime scene”
Two blocks on,...
112. “Stealing evidence from the crime scene”
Two blocks on, under the ambiguous grimace of Tillie from the Palace Amusements wall, we stop and peer down the length of Kingsley Street, where a couple of parked police cars’ roof-lights are twirling, down at Fourth Avenue.
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Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 112: Out of respect for Pippa, Jaymi and Alaia go late at night to try to rescue the sealed envelope she flung away. Luckily he finds it, just outside the cordoned-off area of what is now a crime scene.
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June 18, 2013
111. “What it’s like to die by shriek”
Dim-lit and floppy-limp,...
111. “What it’s like to die by shriek”
Dim-lit and floppy-limp, an ingrown girl dressed in swimmy-pulsing orange moves pins out of one tiny box, to another tiny box—pin by pin, week by week, month by month, year by year, and age by age—saliva on her bleeding fingers, fixing you with desperate eyes, up through your insides, with claustrophobic moisture mewing stale inside her needy, piteous stare—
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Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 111: Jaymi scribbles down everything he can remember about her. He tunes in to Damian, in case Lucan has sent his henchman after Shigem, but finds Damian in bed in the depths of a nightmare: waking, Damian finds, however, that the nightmare continues, as a foul vision envelops, paralyses and kills him.
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June 17, 2013
110. “What it’s like to die by gunshot”
At the end of the line...
110. “What it’s like to die by gunshot”
At the end of the line is a graveyard ringed by statues of ash in crumbling colonnades. A sad human head like a marsh-flower swims through the air among the graves, where the long grass weeps. The sky dims and churns. White drizzle falls out of grey light to black snow. The wind dies, and far away, dust blown from distant lands falls to sea in silence.
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Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 110: Shocked to have heard that, Jaymi tunes straight in to Pippa, who is indeed lying on the street, having been caught in the crossfire and wrongly assumed dead. As she fades, Jaymi sees that although she’s in pain, she is happy to be going. He reads through her eyes a note she retrieves from her pocket, which reveals she has long had a private love-obsession with Angel. She seals this in its envelope and flings it away from her. Then she dies, with a sense of peace through the hallucinatory babble in her mind.
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June 16, 2013
109. “A screech of tyres”
A quiet grinding and clicking emanates...
109. “A screech of tyres”
A quiet grinding and clicking emanates from Damian, as the three of them cross the pavement to the door of Downstairs. “Within one year,” he grates at Kev, “you will be dead. But we’ll both be here still—happy that you suffered when you died. Because I’ll make sure you do…”
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Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 109: Gunshots ring out, three or four blocks from the Metropolitan, then the screech of a get-away car. Jaymi tunes straight in to Lucan, who is speeding out of that area with Kev and Damian in the Cadillac, bound for Downstairs. They speak of how they have succeeded in crippling the Red Bank operation, but Damian is full of hatred for Kev’s having shot Pippa dead in a needless mistake.
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June 15, 2013
108. “I’ll never see your eyes again”
There’s nothing more to...
108. “I’ll never see your eyes again”
There’s nothing more to say, then, except goodbye Shigem and goodbye Kim—together for life, I believe. Goodbye, you beautiful, beautiful boys. I’ll never see your eyes again.
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Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 108: Still concerned for Shigem’s safety from Lucan and Damian, Jaymi tunes in to Shigem and Kim, catching the moment when they both escape from the former’s hometown indefinitely in a car bound for the airport. As well as picking up a final rich subtlety of Shigem’s nature, Jaymi resolves he won’t tune in to them around the world and into the future, but will let them both have their privacy.
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June 14, 2013
107. “Flicker of murder in Angel”
You twitch awake again, and...
107. “Flicker of murder in Angel”
You twitch awake again, and Murder flickers closer to you; waits for you to notice it. You notice it. It lets you drink it in for a moment, then it draws you towards it, with glaring pools of eyes in the darkness of the bedroom … and something subtle changes in you, something irreversible and silent.
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Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 107: Tuning in to Angel, Jaymi sees danger in his eyes alongside awareness of the violence in the air. Angel fantasises murdering Lucan and carving his own symbol into Lucan’s stomach, and by degrees he resolves to do so, which fosters an unusual calm in him before his exhausted and half-sleeping mind sinks him back into troubled visions of apocalyptic beauty and darkness. Then Angel jumps up, pockets his gun from its hiding place and slips out of the house.
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June 13, 2013
106. “A gunfight and a snippety exchange”
Well!...
106. “A gunfight and a snippety exchange”
Well! Snippety-snip.
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Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 106: A breathless, no-nonsense Alaia calls Jaymi to say Lucan has just nearly been assassinated, which is rumoured to be gang-related; and she impatiently chivvies along Jaymi’s understanding that Shigem will surely now at last be freed from Lucan’s suspicion that he left the wax models, because Lucan will start assuming they were planted by the rival gang so as to destabilise his own heroin operation here.
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June 12, 2013
105. “The trolls in the warehouse”
You flip your ribcage open...
105. “The trolls in the warehouse”
You flip your ribcage open with a gesture to the stars, laying lewdly bare a heart like a black fleshy artichoke, and move and look as no one else on earth, beyond description … while hidden in the blackness of the broken warehouse windows all around the field, trolls growl and moan at the lurid beauty in you.
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Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 105: Jaymi helps Rik annotate the thieved imaginative material, prior to its being handed over for the design of the sheep’s inner life. Tuning in to Pippa, he at last catches her approaching that narrow door, but she walks past it, blocking it out. She goes outside, either in reality or not, for a lunatic trip away from Asbury Park to give a lurid performance for unseen trolls who are hiding behind black warehouse windows.
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June 11, 2013
104. “Violence in the air”
Waking late, I know that today the...
104. “Violence in the air”
Waking late, I know that today the storm will burst. There is violence in the air.
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Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 104: Seeking the source of the violence in the air, Jaymi tunes in to Alaia. He finds her lying beside him, just the other side of the wall, analysing him in her journal with surprising care. On a violence-seeking mission, however, he moves on from her, tuning in to Shigem awakening to his last day living here. Shigem is reflecting that Angel called him yesterday and said Alaia had supplied DVD proof that Jaymi was spying on Angel, Shigem, Kim and Pippa. From this, Shigem concluded correctly that in doing this Alaia was going behind Jaymi’s back; and it relieved Shigem to find Kim thus cleared of responsibility for telling dreams to Lucan. Shigem forgave Jaymi for any spying, decided not to think about Evelyn’s involvement in it and also not to mention all this to Kim, whom he now contemplates with pleasure on this eve of their building a new life together. Jaymi muses on all the secrets and lies involved in the strange affair of the spokes-sheep.
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