Red Eyes

[andrewducker]

From the desk of Warren Ellis:

She used to have eyes I could lose myself in, and then she had
them replaced with laser pointers. Little red dots jumping up and
down on the bedroom wall as I took her from behind. I could live
with that until she had the animal voice import. The cheetah
purring was okay, but the dingo noises just killed the mood. The
combination of the red eyes and the gorilla sounds when she jerked
off was horrible. A few weeks later, things were moving down there
that shouldn't have. Don't be scared, she said, as stuff pumped
like organ stops under her skin. Something extended itself and
waved at me.

I threw up between her legs and she didn't talk to me for a week.
Which I suppose you can't really blame her for, but still.

I knew it was over when she cut her legs off.

Had them hacked off at the knee and came home with a
suitcase full of modular replacements. The stumps had little
Firewire ports that plugged into the new lower leg units. She
fitted what she called her Sex Legs and flexed artificial toes,
feet fixed in a perfect arch to accomodate the welded-on
six-inch heels. Apparently there were Segway gyroscopes in
the calves to keep her upright when she walked.

I came home one night to find her in a red latex minidress and
sixteen legs. Spider things were sprouted from her knees,
eight legs each. She paraded on the plastic kitchen floor for me,
swinging her hips. Clackclackclackclack on the floor.
Clackclackclackclack.

She stuck her tongue out at me when I started retching. There
was what looked like a DC power inlet on the tip.

After that, it just got ugly. I had to go. I saw her again a couple
of weeks ago. She introduced her new boyfriend as Spin. His
skin was cold and shiny, like white plastic coating over steel. He
had a revolving drum in his stomach. She leant against him and
grinned.

I'm living in my car now. My car loves me. I mean, it wouldn't
have grown a real vagina for me otherwise, would it?

Comments

[green-amber.livejournal.com]

S'funny, I was gonna blog that one too. It was the "cut her legs off" that most made me jump.

[allorin.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't it be more appropriate to post a link to Warren's metacommentary?

[andrewducker]

It would have been, if I'd known it was there when I posted this - I got it from the mailing list, posted it and _then_ saw it on MisterSleepless and DiePunyHumans.