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Stepping out of the house, I knew there was

  • Stepping out of the house, I knew there was something I was forgetting. I checked my pants. Present. I checked my chin for stubble. Absent. I wipe my nose and checked the back

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  • of my neck in the mirror, looking for the tattoo I faintly remembered agreeing to late last night. Nothing. I bent down to tie my shoes, certain I had thought of everything, when

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  • I realized what I had forgotten: I had left Sara passed out in the backseat of my Datsun. I rushed outside, mentally cursing myself for forgetting the only girl to ever

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  • call me Susan. Susan was really my sister's name, but I had secretly coveted that name. Edward was too conservative, but as Susan I could

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  • be anyone I want to be. I could drink tea, whiskey, lemonade, or margaritas. I could fuck all the guys I want, and no one could say anything just because my name is Susan. I could

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  • not stop this feeling of grandiosity from ruining my interview. The HR person asked, "Do you have any questions for us?" So I lit a cigarette, inside the break room and said,

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  • "Nah. Do you have any regrets?" The HR guy hesitated, and I threw the table that was between us and kicked him square in the chest, sending him backwards through the sixth floor

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  • window. I twirled my Errol Flynn mustache, drew my rapier and proceeded to go to accounts receivable. The security approached me with crossbows drawn. I flung myself from the

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  • llama-driven stagecoach, my vaudeville mustache curling gaily. "Have at thee, knaves of accounts receivable!" and I macheted the lot of them with my foil. Tailless cur. Heroicly

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  • I hacked my way through cubicles,shredded paperwork to ribbons, lept to the top of my stagecoach & rode into the sunset. "We've lost him." The Bureausurgeon unplugged the neurotap.

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3 Comments

  1. SlimWhitman Sep 22 2011 @ 08:32

    I was inspired by 'Brazil' one of my favorite movies.

  2. Chaz Sep 22 2011 @ 22:44

    I was thinking of 'The Crimson Permanent Assurance' from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life.

  3. SlimWhitman Sep 23 2011 @ 07:04

    Yes, that's fitting. It does seem quite topical again.

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