{"id":111,"date":"2017-05-08T13:21:12","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T20:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/needlepictures.com\/tbd\/?p=111"},"modified":"2026-03-26T09:03:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:03:20","slug":"an-excerpt-from-my-novel-the-clubber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/needlepictures.com\/tbd\/2017\/05\/08\/an-excerpt-from-my-novel-the-clubber\/","title":{"rendered":"An Excerpt from my novel, The Clubber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>An excerpt from my novel, <a href=\"https:\/\/needlepictures.com\/tbd\/book\/the-clubber\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Clubber: A Tale of the Eighties<\/a>, available now on Amazon.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p> &nbsp;&nbsp; He looked in the mirror, concentrating&#8230;<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp; His nose was a little too big.\u00a0It could stand to be just a bit smaller.\u00a0Not very much smaller, just a smidgen smaller.\u00a0Then it would be just the right size.<br \/>\n   &nbsp;&nbsp;  He couldn&#8217;t decide if his eyes were too bright or not.\u00a0All in all, he liked his eyes well enough, but he thought it would be better if his gray eyes were just a tad darker.\u00a0But, then again, maybe it was better that they weren&#8217;t too dark.\u00a0They might look too much like typical eyes then.<br \/>\n  &nbsp;&nbsp;   He looked at his chin and felt that it stuck out just right and was just the right size, but the overall shape of his face was a bit too oval.\u00a0He liked his mouth.\u00a0His lips were not too thin or too fat, and his mouth was not too wide nor too narrow.<br \/>\n  &nbsp;&nbsp;   He also liked his ears, but he wondered if they might be a bit too big.\u00a0His lobes were just right, long enough for a few post earrings on each side, but not so long that they looked brutish.\u00a0Turning his head to and fro in the mirror,\u00a0he decided his ears were just a little bit too big. They should have been slightly smaller.<br \/>\n  &nbsp;&nbsp;   His hair was a bit on the fine side.\u00a0It took a bit too much hair gel to get it just right.\u00a0He would smooth in the gel, right after washing his hair, and then comb it just right, making most of it part to one side.\u00a0He would then carefully fringe it, leaving just a lock or two wisping down the side of\u00a0his face.\u00a0He was so careful about displacing the one or two rogue wisps of hair that it usually took him a while to perform the operation.\u00a0They had to appear as if they were truly rogue wisps, and not intentionally placed. He finished off his hair with hairspray, using more where he wanted to keep his hair steady, and just a few spritzes where he wanted it to be more loose and casual.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;     He had to look away for just a moment.\u00a0The gap between the top of his head and the top of the mirror was a space that he quickly pushed out of his mind.\u00a0He usually avoided thinking about his height through a strong regimen of denial, though if he ever let his dissatisfaction with his altitude firmly lodge itself into his consciousness he would wish, most of all, that he were taller.\u00a0<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;     He looked himself over in the mirror again. He had shaved on Thursday morning so he would have just the right amount of five o\u2019clock stubble for this evening. It was not going to be too formal a night.\u00a0He was going to the Das Treffen club.\u00a0Some of his scruffier friends would be there, such as Steve the flamer, Jack the junky, and Savin the punk, as well as many of his much more refined friends and acquaintances.\u00a0He chose to try and find a medium between the two, trying to cultivate just the right amount of rough elegance.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;     He was wondering who else was going to be there. He knew he would probably run into at least three or four more people that he knew at Das Treffen.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;     He went to his dresser. Luckily, he still had some clean black bikini briefs.\u00a0That would be especially important if he ended up getting lucky.\u00a0He always reserved his best underwear for nights such as these.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;     He pulled out some black dress socks, the ones that were almost brand new.\u00a0He was thinking about which shirt he should wear. He thought for a moment about wearing a black T-shirt, but that was too pedestrian for this evening.\u00a0There was his black button-up, but that was probably too formal.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;     His dark gray hatchwork button-up was just right.\u00a0It was the kind of shirt that he could just let hang loose, which would be perfect for this evening.\u00a0It looked proper enough, but he could also get away with wearing it casually.\u00a0<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;     Thinking about pants, he considered his jet black slacks, but they had the same drawbacks as his black shirt. Too formal.\u00a0He thought about his black jeans, but it might set his shirt to looking a bit too rough.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;     He settled on his second-hand pair of black slacks.\u00a0They were cool enough. Not too formal or too egalitarian.\u00a0He pulled them out of his dresser.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;     He looked over his lineup of shoes. Although he had earlier decided on wearing his docs, he wondered if he shouldn&#8217;t wear his shorter leather boots.<br \/>\n\u00a0&nbsp;&nbsp; \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0He settled on the short black boots.\u00a0He knew he would have to wear his Docs to the Thrill Kill Kult show next week.\u00a0It was best not to be seen with the same kind of footwear too often.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp; \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0But now he faced his hardest decision: which coat to wear.\u00a0This would be the most important decision of the evening. The coat would define him so much more than anything else he would adorn.<br \/>\n  &nbsp;&nbsp;   His old leather was a tad too rough.\u00a0His new leather was too formal.\u00a0His vinyl leather was out of the question.<br \/>\n  &nbsp;&nbsp;   Then there was his other leather jacket.\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t that old, but it wasn&#8217;t brand new either.\u00a0He dug around in the deep end of his closet and got it out.\u00a0Looking at it in the mirror, he decided it was perfect.<br \/>\n &nbsp;&nbsp;    He had gotten his clothes out of the way.\u00a0Now he had to pick out his jewelry.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;     Two rings on his left hand were probably enough.\u00a0 He sorted through his skull rings, and decided to wear the flat silver polished one, the one that reminded him of Keith Richard&#8217;s skull ring.\u00a0He wore his tribal design on his middle finger.<br \/>\n &nbsp;&nbsp;    Standing back, he wondered if he should go with just one ring. He decided he could just put one in his coat pocket if he felt it looked too awkward. He didn&#8217;t have a hard time choosing his earrings though. Two very small hoops in his left and one in his right.\u00a0Simple, yet classy.<br \/>\n &nbsp;&nbsp;    Getting dressed and looking at his hands again, he saw he had washed off almost all\u00a0the paint from his fingers when he washed his hair. He wondered if he should put some more random speckles of paint near the tips of his fingers.\u00a0He had to do it soon, because the paint would have to be dry by the time he got there.<br \/>\n &nbsp;&nbsp;    He decided against any more inadvertent paint.\u00a0He had enough small flecks as it was.\u00a0He would make sure there were more speckles for the Thrill Kill Kult show.<br \/>\n &nbsp;&nbsp;    Setting aside his leather jacket, he sat down next to his dresser.\u00a0His window was open and the cool dusk air wafted against him as he looked casually out onto the street below.\u00a0The lower Haight was fairly busy in the sunsetting light.\u00a0It wouldn&#8217;t be dark for at least an hour.\u00a0That&#8217;s when he would make his way to Remington&#8217;s to meet Serge and Edrea.<br \/>\n &nbsp;&nbsp;    He had gotten himself where he wanted to be fashion-wise and now he had a few hours to kill.\u00a0 He always did this, getting himself fixed up way ahead of time.\u00a0He thought about stopping by Optictrauma and checking out some of the new books and videos, but he didn&#8217;t want to get ahead of himself and leave his place too soon.<br \/>\n &nbsp;&nbsp;    He wondered if he should have invited Jen to Das Treffen.\u00a0He decided it was a good idea that he had not. 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