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you’re not a slave, right?” “I don’t know what I am,” Fran said. “I guess one day I’ll have to figure that out.”
Haha
“Ryan Shoemaker,”
Kyle Rainey.”
Haha
That was one of the ways they cotched you, Fran figured. Like wild animals when someone shone a light at them.
She sold the guitar when she got to New York City. What was left of her daddy’s two hundred dollars had bought her a Greyhound ticket and a couple of burgers at the bus station.
Fawn,
Or want to kiss you
Haha
Bubble of blood
Paul Zell
New York City.
Daddy bar to all the minibars in all the rooms.
Haha
Now fill up the lobby with dentists and superheroes. Men and women, oral surgeons, eighth-dimensional entities, mutants, and freaks who want to save your teeth, save the world, and maybe end up with a television show, too.
Real ones? Makes this a fantasy story.
Aliss,
Billie Faggart.
Melinda Bowles
the Enchantress Magic EightBall
Master Thief Boggle.
massively multiplayer online role-playing game. 1990’s
a bubble of blood.
“Melinda Bowles,”
bubble of blood.
the Enchantress Magic EightBall met the Master Thief Boggle in King Nermal’s Chamber and challenged him to a game of chess.
things were bad at school and worse at home,
That’s when young girls will run away
Haha
how else could I convince you that I was a thirty-two-year-old divorced high school algebra teacher?
Haha
(Conrad Linthor,
I know you’re supposed to be able to laugh at yourself, but that’s pretty sucky advice when everyone is always laughing at you already.)
Haha
the teeth grinding, that’s me. Not Melinda.
Mee too
that’s love, and nobody really understands how it works. It just happens.
Haha sad
Haha
Haha
what she needs is to look less like herself. To look less like a fifteen-year-old crazy liar.
Haha
Haha
Her first New York bagel.
Haha - me neither
Billie thinks those lights are the loneliest things she’s ever seen.
Even lonelier than the light of distant stars that are already dead by the time their light reaches us.
A Ray Bradbury comment
What would Alice do, Billie thinks. Billie has always been a Lewis Carroll fan, and not just because of the chess stuff.
Haha
It’s the first time Billie’s ever been drunk, and she’s not very good at it.
In which I continue to act stupidly.
Not so stupid for 15 & never been out of town, and “things were bad at school and worse at home.” p. 90
Haha
“Call me Eloise,” Conrad Linthor says.
Haha
Eloise. The girl who lives in The Plaza? Has a pet whale named Moby Dick?”
Billie’s legs are noodles. The ends of her hair are poison needles. Her tongue is a bristly sponge, and her eyes are bags of bleach.
