Harold Jaffe - Induced Coma

There is a rent on the left side of the left shoe.

Really? I’m not surprised.

One must expect inferior quality from J. Peterman.

But don’t you just adore his prose?

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Is this the end of the end?

It is the end of your debauched cycle.

Will Yourselfreappear in whichever cycle succeeds this?

Depends on technology .

Your Techno-Reich means to live forever .

Or at least for a thousand years.

If that’s how it plays out, I will consort with virgins.

Layin’ in my blood waitin’ on the medics.

What’s takin’ so long?

Don’t make no dif to me, Jack.

Jus’ me and them lights.

Death, right?

How you say it? Beckoning?

I like that.

Don’t feel no pain.

Maybe I’m already dead.

Jus’ my heart, man.

It still ain’t quit.

Bangkok Post

BBC

CLG

Al Jazeera

Le Monde

La Prensa

El País

Japan Times

The Free Library

Yahoo & Google

The NY Daily News

The Half Moon Bay Review

The Huffington Post

The Independent UK

The Guardian UK

Mr. S Leather

AlterNet

The Village Voice

The Progressive

Erowid Psychoactive Vaults

Multiple miscellaneous sources on- & off-line

My epigraph is a treated version of a Peter Ustinov quote.

HAROLD JAFFEis the author of 22 volumes of fiction, novels, docufiction, and essays, most recently Anti-Twitter: 150 50-Word Stories, OD, Paris 60, Revolutionary Brain, Othello Blues , and Induced Coma: 50 & 100 Word Stories . His books have been translated in France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Japan, Cuba, Turkey, Romania and elsewhere. Jaffe is editor-in-chief of Fiction International .