The reference to HENRY (myself) and LOUISE (GILL as MARTINE) - the TASCHMANNS still figured by this point in time that the 'shadows' would win...they have a seriously bad news alter called 'queen'...wrong, you didn't win...you were SUNK.

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florence, visiting her dead husband, lenn
they say it's quite impossible, but what do i know of possible or impossible? in the night when things are darkest, but not quite dark, because things never get too dark here, you know. ( it's a conspiracy to keep us sane - a joke, the loons.) and the shadows begin to take form. (see, they count on it all slipping away, but it doesn't all slip.) but when the shadows come in corner smears of vaseline, i see them emerge with creature fingers raised. nosferatu? i say, as Henry shits his pants and Louise sits by the lights like a beacon on a hill, on and off and on and off, her fingers play. the shadows never have a full chance here, but even Louise gets tired, and Henry runs out of bulk, and so then the shadows creep a little taller, a little longer in approach. i am queen! i'm sorry, that's done, just a momentary thing. the shadows slide off the wall, use the floor, make toward the cart. that's when i choose to go, when they're close. that's when i take my leave. in the morning i will be back for blinds up violently like eyelids and hail mary's in the street, but as long as i am alive, dammit, it is my right to be as i please.

i find him on silver street with a funny hat on his head. he is all slanted and drunk. i pull him by the collar hard, like he's a cow.