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He walked behind her deliberately. He was

  • He walked behind her deliberately. He was guided perfume in an invisible wake, so smitten he could have done it with his eyes closed. Nobody noticed him, not even her. His lungs
  • were on the outside of his body in a really nasty birth defect. He took to wearing a vest to cover them, which made sense in the 80's but now he seemed like a Eurotrash tourist
  • Surgery was clearly required and a loophole in his medical insurance was going to be taken advantage of. He decided to hitch-hike to the hospital & was picked up by a
  • strange looking ice cream truck driven by a one-legged scuba diver. He had a mushroom-shaped wart on his neck which seemed to work as a GPS, giving him directions. It wasn't until
  • the wart opened up did she see what it had been hiding. A computer motherboard or something like it. GPS was certain but what else could this
  • fleshy nubbin be hiding? She delved further into exploration to find a
  • strange extension on her left side. She followed it down to the end, and had the oddest sensation that she was groping her own left hand. She raised her left arm, she was. What is
  • going on, she thought vaguely to herself; only vaguely, because the sensation became more insistent, more alarming. She continued running her hand along these new limbs, feeling
  • more and more suffocated with each passing moment. As the sensation continued, she felt as though these new limbs were more of a burden than they were a blessing.
  • Kind of like how in the old days, people thought having lots of kids would make the farm work easier, her extra limbs were really like those cheeky little shits who egged my car.

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