Coming in late 2007!

October City Vampire Tales

Pebbles in Hot Soup

A Graphic Novel in a place like no other.

Through the Green Wood Gate We Broke

The sweat is tasteable on pores as the discard boy in drag carries her laundry basket out - she tightens her legs hoping to be noticed, feeling hands freeze - shifting eyes pulsing dry lips, still in the cold, kicking beer cans aside or perhaps they were bottles, recycling has a price to pay you know - to the car in the company of others, dirty sock, dirty clothes, piling high in the hatch, tossed assume, perhaps covered in what was left behind from staying up too late, only to come, as if for the first time last night. The stale dry air of the apartment, broken space heaters, torn cracks in ash, heavy doors scratch, lost and collected there - He came on her stomach, it seems as if he tries to, pulling her pants to below her waist, caressing the dampening skin, just above her thigh as she wipes his hand through the stain, laughing as if for the first time - still shaking from the lack of heat not afraid that someone hear, it is too cold to get out of bed, but the laundry is done and the tips of the unnoticed girl’s fingers have thawed to reveal once perfect hands now broken, healed, and disfigured, dripping off the ice from the car outside, always told her hands were bent she never listened, nor wanted to believe that bad things happen to good people or is it the other way around? Through crooked claws, she questions it.....

from "Pebbles in Hot Soup" by Kaytee Thrun