#samuelrdelany — Public Fediverse posts

Wally!" Milly said from the edge of hysteria. "Wally Efrin!

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Looking up at the ceiling, I began to fall asleep: the kind of falling where you watch yourself do it, and everything gets all tingly and you sink among the tingles.

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Something in the machinery between Kid's belly and loin tightened. Denny was trying to climb over him. Kid moved a leg between them—something scraped. Lanya got one elbow under her. Kid's hand dragged her back. It's clumsy, Kid thought. It is clumsy! and a despair that he had been trying to hold in suspension for—how long? broke. He thought he was going to cry. What came out was a great, voiceless gasp.

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"Five dollars an hour is quite high. For unskilled labor." The cup lowered to her chin.

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Sure you weren't," the redhead said. His skin, deep tan, was galaxied with freckles. Hair and beard were curly as a handful of pennies. "Yeah, sure. I just bet you weren't." He swung the pipe, snapping his arm at the arc's end: neckchains rattled. "You better get down from there, boy.

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She stopped behind her chair.

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From where he stood, the flame at the white wax taper tip covered June's left eye. She smiled.

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She said, sweetly: "I was fucking pissed, you know, when Madame Brown told me you'd split. But when I got here and everybody said you were writing, it was okay." She picked up the sheaf of blue paper. "I'm going to steal these away to read. I'll bring them back in twenty minutes. All right?"

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"Um… this loft is theirs," Kid said to Lanya.

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While someone else in the hubbub, shouted, "Hey, hey, hey come on now. Hey!"

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Are you familiar with it?

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Tak clapped Kid's shoulder, then pushed away from the bar. "Let's go."

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