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This week’s short story title: Rx XXX
WARNING: This story has content which may be offensive to some; it contains graphic sexual content and language which may not be suitable for the sensibilities of some readers. It is absolutely inappropriate for readers under eighteen years of age, and for many over that age as well. - also, seniors with a cardiac condition might want to break out their pills, draw the curtains closed …
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Rx XXX
a short story by Mark Kolke
He’s not the same today – nice for a change.
Why?
He was acting like a character in one of those erectile dysfunction TV ads, where there is something different, and nobody can figure out what is going on . . . maybe he’s taking the magic blue pill?
Something’s up.
He usually wields words like a sword; two-edged, one razor sharp for beheadings and body swipes, the other - wide and blunt for bludgeoning skull-shattering blows or knee-capping. No Mongol warlord or mob hitman; worse, he’s my editor. . at a mediocre one-movie-a-week porn flick factory in the valley. Hell, I’m getting cavalier about this. It’s crap. It’s all crap, but that’s what I’ve been doing for the last nine months and I’ve become numb to it.
But, for some reason, he’s softer, low-energy today, like a sluggish engine down a quart. His usual demeanour – which is to say, the more intense he gets, de-meaner he gets . . . is muted. Hmm.
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