This Desperate City
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  • Blog
  • Publications
    • The Good Fortune of Augusta
    • A Golden Yellow Cage
    • Fountain of Youth
    • Blacksburg Park
    • The Amazing Antoinette
    • That Song
    • Entropy
    • Black and White and Red All Over
    • The Last Blue Sky: Starflight
    • Faces of the Dead Ones
    • The Hard Sell
    • Legacy
    • Clash
    • The Final Sentence
    • Lost and Found
  • Stories
    • Instagram Micro Crime Vol 1
    • Instagram Micro Crime Vol 2
    • Instagram Micro Crime Vol 3
    • Instagram Micro Crime Vol 4
    • Instagram Micro Crime Vol 5
    • Instagram Micro Crime Vol 6 (Current)
    • A Golden Yellow Cage
    • Blondie Walker
    • The Hardest Men
    • The Tyranny Of Defense
  • Webcomics
    • Infinity
    • Extra Sin
    • Stolen Loneliness
  • For All the Thrills
    • TDC & Thrillville Presents: Vic Valentine

The Amazing Antoinette
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This Desperate City: Amazing Antoinette

He walked towards me, boots crunching fresh snow. I

“I just quit my job.” I don’t know why I said it; words tumbled from my mouth.

“Pain,” he stood above, an eclipse of man. “It’s everything. Pain is real. It’s the only thing on this earth that you can’t see but always know is there.”

Light from somewhere, maybe the snow, maybe God, lit the whites of his eyes, opaque sideways bullets against blackness. Before long he’d beat his way through my skull. 
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