Zippered Flesh Quotes

“The only medication she enjoyed was the morphine they administered in even higher doses”
― Weldon Burge, Zippered Flesh: Tales of Body Enhancements Gone Bad!

“Are you allergic to shellfish, strawberries, kiwis, bananas, or poinsettias?”
― Weldon Burge, Zippered Flesh: Tales of Body Enhancements Gone Bad!

“Twelve hundred for two hours for both.” That meant Geri would collect four hundred if the johns came through.”
― Weldon Burge, Zippered Flesh: Tales of Body Enhancements Gone Bad!

“In a sea of soaking-wet goths and metal-heads, she alone was completely dry,”
― Weldon Burge, Zippered Flesh: Tales of Body Enhancements Gone Bad!

“she scrutinized Alesha’s chrome dome. Great. She’s captivated by the drops of sweat covering it. They’re probably reflecting tiny rainbows all over the room. I’m a human disco ball, whee!”
― Weldon Burge, Zippered Flesh: Tales of Body Enhancements Gone Bad!

“THE SAD, NOT-SO-SAD, BALLAD OF GOAT-HEAD JEAN, AMBIVALENT DEVIL QUEEN   BY MICHAEL LOUIS CALVILLO”
― Weldon Burge, Zippered Flesh: Tales of Body Enhancements Gone Bad!

“Men and women were able to reinvent themselves, and to derive strange new pleasures from pain and humiliation and self-distortion. Who was to say that it was right or that it was wrong?”
― Weldon Burge, Zippered Flesh: Tales of Body Enhancements Gone Bad!

“tattooing or any other kind of heavyweight perversion—it”
― Weldon Burge, Zippered Flesh: Tales of Body Enhancements Gone Bad!

“Mrs. Ellis opened her black alligator pocketbook and took out a black cigarette, which she lit with a black enameled Dunhill lighter. She pecked, sucked, blew smoke.”
― Weldon Burge, Zippered Flesh: Tales of Body Enhancements Gone Bad!

“I think someone needs more morphine,” Dr. Raymond said”
― Weldon Burge, Zippered Flesh: Tales of Body Enhancements Gone Bad!

“They must have pumped him full of some high-test elephant tranquilizer, considering how tough it was for Paolo to return to the land of the living.”
― Weldon Burge, Zippered Flesh: Tales of Body Enhancements Gone Bad!

“I’m at the mercy of Editors, who are hidden behind panels and are never seen by mortal eyes.”
― Weldon Burge, Zippered Flesh: Tales of Body Enhancements Gone Bad!

“Why would anybody want to?”
― Weldon Burge, Zippered Flesh: Tales of Body Enhancements Gone Bad!

“You’ve grown tiresome. See ya.”
― Weldon Burge, Zippered Flesh: Tales of Body Enhancements Gone Bad!

“Free spirit” sounded way better than “drunken slack-ass.”
― Weldon Burge, Zippered Flesh: Tales of Body Enhancements Gone Bad!

“what if they had a damn good reason for chasing him, a motivation that ran deeper than “Hey, an alien, catch it!”
― Weldon Burge, Zippered Flesh: Tales of Body Enhancements Gone Bad!

“bears are getting smart. Evolution, right? If they get hungry enough, they knock on doors and wait for someone to come out on the porch. Then they attack,”
― Weldon Burge, Zippered Flesh: Tales of Body Enhancements Gone Bad!