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Jeff Noon
Vurt
For Nick -- totally feathered up, living on the dub side
A young boy puts a feather into his mouth...
DAY 1
"Sometimes it feels like the whole world is smeared with Vaz."
STASH RIDERS
Mandy came out of the all-night Vurt-U-Want, clutching a bag of goodies.
Close by was a genuine dog, flesh and blood mix; the kind you don't see much any more. A real collector's item. It was tethered to the post of a street sign. The sign read NO GO. Slumped under the sign was a robo-crusty. He had a thick headful of droidlocks and a dirty handwritten card -- "hungry n homeless, please help." Mandy, all twitching steps and head-jerks, scurried past him. The crusty raised his sad little message ever so slightly and the thin pet dog whined.
Through the van's window I saw Mandy mouth something at them; "Fuck off, crusties. Get a life." Something like that.
I was watching all this in the halo of the night lights. We stuck to the da...
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