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This is an excerpt from my recently published novel The Falling Circle<\/a>, available for Kindle and in paperback on Amazon.com<\/em><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Falling-Circle-Jeffrey-Matucha-ebook\/dp\/B07K7NVKBW\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Talking to Gust<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Preston was meditating on the faint, translucent swirls oozing around the surface of his coffee when he heard someone bounding down the hall.<\/p>\n

    Ka-flump, KA-flumP, KAFLuMP!<\/p>\n

    The kaflumping got closer and closer until Gust bounced through the hallway door and into the kitchen. She suddenly stopped at the sight of Preston as he looked up.<\/p>\n

    Gust looked away and calmly walked to the kitchen counter. She took down a cup and poured herself a cup of coffee. Preston looked back down into his coffee.<\/p>\n

    He could hear her meandering about the kitchen as he resumed studying his coffee\u2019s swirls. He heard a chair squeal against the floor as Gust pulled it away from the table. Looking up, he saw that she had seated herself directly across the table from him. She was staring right at him.<\/p>\n

    \u201cWhat?\u201d blurted Preston at the staring Gust.
\n    She sipped her coffee. \u201cDoes your penis ever talk to you?\u201d She tilted her head with a serious look of inquisition on her face.
\n    \u201cWhat?\u201d said Preston.
\n    \u201cWhat? Does your penis ever talk to you?\u201d
\n    \u201cNo, but it does a lot a’ thinkin\u2019. Why?\u201d
\n    \u201cJust curious.\u201d
\n    \u201cDoes your vagina ever talk to you?\u201d
\n    \u201cNot that I know of, but my friend Tim says that it does.\u201d
\n    \u201cDoes what?\u201d
\n    \u201cTim says my vagina talks to him. He says it calls out to him when I walk by. \u2018Tim, Tim.\u2019\u201d
\n    \u201cCisco Tim?\u201d
\n    \u201cEeyuh! No way! Tim from the Misinformed.\u201d
\n    \u201cI know that guy.\u201d
\n    \u201cY\u2019know Tim?\u201d
\n    \u201cYeah. He owes me a dollar.\u201d
\n    \u201cAh. A dollar.\u201d
\n    \u201cLike, he asked me for a dollar once at Gilman so he could get a soda, and I said \u2018Sure, here\u2019, and he takes the dollar while tellin\u2019 me, \u2018I\u2019ll pay ya\u2019 back, really I will,\u2019 and I\u2019m like yeah, yeah, and he\u2019s all \u2018No, really, next time I see you.\u2019 Like I care about a damn dollar.\u201d
\n    \u201cHa!\u201d
\n    \u201cHe still hasn\u2019t paid it back, but he keeps tellin\u2019 me he will. It\u2019s been like, six months.\u201d
\n    \u201cHe ain\u2019t never got no money.\u201d
\n    \u201cYeah, I know. That\u2019s why I don\u2019t care if I got my dollar back.\u201d
\n    \u201cHey, watch this,\u201d said Gust.<\/p>\n

    Gust took a long drag off of her coffee and then tilted back her head and gargled her coffee.<\/p>\n

    She brought her head back down and swallowed.<\/p>\n

    \u201cBet that\u2019s not the only thing you gargle,\u201d said Preston.
\n    \u201cSo if you penis never says anything, then what about your asshole?\u201d
\n    \u201cHuh?\u201d
\n    \u201cDoes your asshole ever talk to you?\u201d
\n    \u201cYeah, it says, \u2018keep me away from Gust. I think she\u2019s after me.\u2019\u201d
\n    \u201cIt must\u2019ve been talkin\u2019 to my vagina.\u201d
\n    \u201cNo doubt.\u201d
\n    \u201cY\u2019know,\u201d said Gust, as she leaned onto the table, \u201cWe make porno films in your room when you\u2019re not here.\u201d
\n    \u201cWho does?\u201d
\n    \u201cMe an\u2019 my friends.\u201d
\n    \u201cYour friends and your talkin\u2019 vagina?\u201d
\n    \u201cYeah.\u201d
\n    \u201cThat\u2019s why my room smells like that.\u201d
\n    \u201cYeah. Sorry about the stains on the ceiling.\u201d
\n    \u201cHey, you know Shang, don\u2019tcha\u2019?\u201d asked Preston.
\n    \u201cYeah.\u201d
\n    \u201cYou seen him lately?\u201d
\n    \u201cNuh-uh. His squat got busted.\u201d
\n    \u201cI know. I tried to go crash there last week, and when I got there it was all covered up with police tape.\u201d
\n    \u201cNo shit? I never saw you at that squat.\u201d
\n    \u201cShang told me I could crash there if I wanted to. I went down there on Wednesday to take him up on his offer.\u201d
\n    \u201cThat\u2019s the day it got busted.\u201d
\n    \u201cWhat happened?\u201d
\n    Gust took another swig of her coffee. \u201cA couple a\u2019 weeks ago, a couple a\u2019 new people showed up at the squat, only some people weren\u2019t too sure about em\u2019. They thought maybe they were a bit too straight an\u2019 tweaky, y\u2019know? They usually like to make sure that the people crashing out down there aren\u2019t too straight or lame.\u201d
\n    \u201cDid Shang tell you all of this?\u201d
\n    \u201cNaw. Jason did.\u201d
\n    \u201cJason\u2026?\u201d
\n    \u201cJason th\u2019 gutter punk, the dude with th\u2019 big purple mohawk who\u2019s always on the graph?\u201d
\n    \u201cI think I know who you\u2019re talkin\u2019 about.\u201d
\n    \u201cYeah, Jason was a squat regular there. Anyways, the new kids were a couple a\u2019 runaways, some rude boy and his stupid goth puppy girlfriend. The goth puppy had just run away, and she\u2019s all worried what her ma will think, even though th\u2019 rude boy\u2019s already told everyone that her parents are a couple of Nazi assholes.\u201d Gust stopped long enough to take a swig of coffee. \u201cAnyhow, it turns out that the goth puppy sends a letter to her ma to let her know she\u2019s okay.\u201d
\n    \u201cWhere were they from?\u201d
\n    \u201cI dunno. Some stupid hick state like Oklahoma or somethin\u2019 like that. Anyways, she sent her parents a postcard and it turns out that she put th\u2019 address of the squat on the postcard as a return address, so once Nazi mom and dad get the postcard, they\u2019re out in front of the squat the very next day. They rushed out to California, on a plane an\u2019 everythin\u2019, all the way out from the Midwest, an\u2019 the ma, who\u2019s some fat ol\u2019 bitch, takes one look at the squat and starts wavin\u2019 her fat, flabby arms around an\u2019 screamin\u2019 \u2018My baby! My baby! They\u2019re in there raping my baby!\u2019\u201d
\n    \u201cNo shit?\u201d
\n    \u201cYeah, like at the top of her lungs in the middle of the day an everythin’. An\u2019 she\u2019s yellin\u2019 rape, an\u2019 drugs, an\u2019 torture, and all of this tweaked out bullshit so loud that somebody calls the cops and th\u2019 parents have th\u2019 pigs charge into the place and rake everybody out.\u201d
\n    \u201cFuckin\u2019 a.\u201d
\n    \u201cI heard a few punks were busted for possession. I dunno. I heard Shang is hangin\u2019 low for awhile.\u201d
\n    \u201cDidn\u2019t th\u2019 cops already know about that place?\u201d
\n    \u201cHell yeah. They didn\u2019t give a fuck about it though. They didn\u2019t care that we wuz hangin\u2019 out in some fucked up old house that no one else was usin\u2019 anyways, but they hadda do somethin\u2019 with some flabby old loudmouth screamin\u2019 about rape an\u2019 drugs an\u2019 her daughter\u2019s been kidnapped by punks and shit.\u201d
\n    \u201cDamn, that\u2019s fucked up!\u201d
\n    \u201cSo how d\u2019ya know Shang?\u201d asked Gust.
\n    \u201cJus\u2019 from hangin\u2019 out on the ave.\u201d
\n    \u201cI\u2019ve never seen you on the ave.\u201d
\n    \u201cYeah you have.\u201d
\n    \u201cI have?\u201d
\n    \u201cYeah! You talked to me once.\u201d
\n    \u201cI did?\u201d
\n    \u201cYeah.\u201d
\n    \u201cWas I drunk?\u201d
\n    \u201cI dunno. You didn\u2019t seem drunk at the time, but you called me a dildo and a something er\u2019 other, and then something else, and then I called you a stupid bitch or somethin\u2019 like that and you threw a carton of milk at me.\u201d
\n    Gust\u2019s eyes widened in surprise. \u201cI did?\u201d
\n    \u201cYeah, a small, half empty carton of milk. I got milk all over me. Ya\u2019 threw it at me an\u2019 ran off down the street.\u201d
\n    Gust looked out at the far wall for a moment with wide, wondering eyes as she thought about it.
\n    \u201cI wanted ta\u2019 kill ya\u2019 at the time,\u201d said Preston, \u201cBut you\u2019d taken off so fast I couldn\u2019t catch ya\u2019.\u201d
\n    \u201cDude, I don\u2019t remember that at all!\u201d confessed Gust.
\n    \u201cIt was only a couple of weeks ago.\u201d
\n    \u201cOh, shit. No wonder you got so mad at me the other night.\u201d
\n    \u201cThat\u2019s ’cause you was sleepin\u2019 in my room.\u201d
\n    \u201cWaitasec.\u201d
\n    Gust got up and went to the fridge. She took out a half quart carton of milk and held it out to Preston.
\n    \u201cHere,\u201d said Gust.
\n    \u201cWhat? You gonna throw more milk at me?\u201d
\n    \u201cNaw. Get even.\u201d
\n    \u201cWhat?\u201d
\n    Gust waved the carton at Preston. \u201cYou can throw a carton of milk at me so we\u2019ll be even.\u201d
\n    \u201cNo way.\u201d
\n    \u201cCome on, belt me with it!\u201d
\n    \u201cLike you\u2019d care if you got covered with milk.\u201d
\n    \u201cNo way man. I don\u2019 wanna smell like sour milk all day.\u201d
\n    \u201cToo late.\u201d
\n    Gust impatiently shook the milk carton. \u201cCome on, dude, just do it!\u201d
\n    \u201cNaw. I ain\u2019t gettin’ milk all over th\u2019 kitchen an\u2019 gettin\u2019 Tam mad at me.\u201d
\n    \u201cTam? What? Are you scared of a girl?\u201d
\n    \u201cTam ain\u2019t no girl, bitch.\u201d
\n    \u201cFine then!\u201d Gust turned around and put the milk back into the fridge. \u201cYou had your chance, bitch. Don\u2019t say I never did nuttin\u2019 for ya\u2019.\u201d She downed the rest of her coffee and then bounced out of the kitchen and down the hall.<\/p>\n

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