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I’m on my knees, and he’s pointing it at me.

I ask myself why we couldn’t have at the least gone to a pleasant restaurant.

Someplace with a chill environment and a choice of starters which may’ve made all of this a bit extra palatable. A second in the past, he mentioned he was sorry I obtained snarled on this scene, and that I should be on an 18-carat run of unhealthy luck. A minimum of it wasn’t the outdated ‘it’s not you, it’s me’ schtick.

As he shoots me within the head, I take into consideration the place I’m at in my sordid love life. Absolutely issues can solely go up from right here, proper?

I get up with a balding man standing over me. He’s obtained a pleasant moustache, and the kind of type eyes that would solely belong to a grandfather in a film or a Disneyland mascot designed to settle down a toddler that’s simply s**t itself happening the log flume. He’s a bit too outdated to be my sort, even when I do recognize the hug as he helps me away from bed.

Then, issues get a bit bizarre. He makes me play this outdated carnival recreation to test I haven’t obtained mind harm, then we head by means of to the opposite room. First, he begins enjoying phrase affiliation, then he reveals me his artwork assortment. One of many work appears to be like like a dick, however I’m too embarrassed to really say that. One’s of two bears high-fiving, for some motive. I want he’d simply gotten a Pinterest as a substitute of exhibiting me them in particular person, however I feel he’s a hipster. He provides me some good parting items, but it surely’s not sufficient.

Outdoors, I run right into a robotic with the face of a cowboy on its monitor. Okay, possibly it’ll take some explaining to my dad and mom, and who is aware of how a lot of a nightmare it may very well be within the bed room, however certain, I’ll entertain it. It seems he dug me out of the grave my ex left me in, successfully saving my life. It doesn’t assist his case a lot. I’m simply not into the faux-John Wayne act, particularly from one thing which may by accident fireplace a machine gun at me if it will get too excited throughout foreplay.

I head for the saloon, as a result of lord is aware of alcohol would possibly make this all a bit of simpler. There’s a grizzled outdated prospector sitting on the porch. “Howdy. What can Straightforward Pete do for you?” he says. I entertain it for a second, then head straight inside. The bartender’s lacking. As an alternative, I’m accosted by an unbearably cheery lady in leather-based armour, and her canine. Why do these varieties of individuals all the time have canine, I feel. She gives to show me methods to shoot issues and go tenting. There’s one thing about her out of doors centre teacher hiding a deeply traumatic previous vibe that begins to win me over.

Halfway by means of capturing some geckos, nevertheless, it wears skinny. I realise it gained’t work, as a result of once we’re with folks, all they’ll do is ask me why I’m not as cheerful as she is. When she’s not trying, I run for the hills.

The following few days all blur collectively. There’s a woman at a bar who blows me away along with her profanity and urge for food for whisky. She says one thing a few Lengthy Dick Johnson, who has an extended dick, therefore the title. At first, I fear it’s some ex I’d must reside as much as, however quickly, that doesn’t matter. She will’t depart the outpost, and I’m not able to calm down but. On the roof of the identical constructing, there’s a lady in a cowboy hat. She’s good, however intense, and cursed with the identical complexion as a ginger particular person. I assume the latter two are inherently linked. She asks me to go and take a look at some smoke in a close-by city.

It’s there I meet the lottery winner. And the furry. I shortly rule out the previous. The furry takes extra time. Him and his mates have canine hats and precise canine with them. I resist the urge to ask him if, in all kinds however bodily, he’s a wolf. He’s making an attempt to scare me, to go and inform other people to be fearful of him and his buddies. I don’t know if it’s that, the hat, or the crucified our bodies surrounding us, however I’m not fairly feeling it.

I drift north, and all of it continues to mix right into a human soup. There’s a nocturnal bloke who gained’t cease happening about his deceased partner. I’m 90% certain she’s simply left him and brought the youngsters. There’s a glowing man with no pores and skin, who desires to hop on a rocket and go to area together with his mates. Sorry, his cult. He’s fairly enjoyable, however guys who assume they’re Jesus are a non-starter. There’s a woman in brown robes who says she lives in a gap within the floor along with her household. I don’t blame her, transferring out is hard on this financial system. I’m, nevertheless, mildly frightened that she’d ask if we are able to use her pneumatic gauntlet within the bed room.

I carry on going, drifting into the town. There’s a woman physician with a sick mohawk and the calm temperament of somebody with out a mohawk. Differently, she’s similar to the woman who taught me methods to shoot. Too good, too good at caring about folks and asking for nothing again for us to work. There’s an Elvis impersonator with a robotic canine. That final half almost swings issues his manner, however then he says ‘uh-huh-huh’ and I bodily shudder.

I pay my caps and head onto the primary drag. Discovering love among the many neon-trimmed fakery appears inconceivable, however I give it a strive. The closest I come is after I make a journey as much as the tower’s penthouse. He appears to be like fairly good-looking on the display screen of his monitor, and appears wealthy sufficient to be prime sugar daddy materials, even when he gained’t cease spouting Adam Smith quotes and asking me for that rattling chip. One thing doesn’t really feel proper, although. So, I sneak into his again room and that’s after I discover him. The true him. A shrivelled prune with wispy hair. A prepared meal, 200 years or so outdated. I’ve by accident killed that prepared meal in taking it out of the fridge, but it surely doesn’t matter. The search continues.

There’s a high hat sporting cannibal and an Italian mobster who runs an enormous brothel that’s kinda on fireplace. Go. Go. There’s a desk jockey who desires me to go and speak to some boomers. He doesn’t final lengthy. Then, I run into the furry once more. He asks me to go and see his boss, who appears like an precise salad. F**ok it, why not? I trek midway throughout Nevada to a tent on a hill, and inside I discover what I can solely describe as an incel’s incel. He’s dressed like a Roman soldier, he’s learn some Hegel, and his hairline’s past saving. He’s additionally fairly impolite. He’s on the desk as an possibility far longer that he needs to be. Primarily as a result of I’m fascinated as to why none of his mates have given the punch within the mouth he so clearly wants but.

Then, I discover out why. He’s constructed like a brick shithouse on stilts, carries a sword that’s so big I’m not even certain of the rule about it compensating for one thing applies right here, and wears a masks that makes him look a bit just like the statue from an costly water characteristic. He talks in riddles, muttering about bears and bulls, easts and wests, flags and blood. I take into account asking him to be the singer in a steel band I’ve been planning to start out for just a few years now, however assume higher of it. He’s clearly far too regular for that profession path. Ultimately, I chew his ear off lengthy sufficient that he runs away.

Not sure the place else to go, I wander additional and additional. There’s a spiritual man, lined in bandages. I discover a number of his sculpture cute, however I’m unsure how we’d do it with out him getting damage. There’s a mind in a jar that thinks my toes are penises and gained’t cease shouting at me. For a really transient second, I feel he is likely to be price a go. There are one other couple of outdated males, who reside in a neighbourhood stuffed with actually unhealthy clouds of air pollution. One’s clearly into bondage, as he medicine me and places an explosive steel collar on my neck. The opposite’s a skinless singer, with an ego the scale of the theatres he performs in. There’s a man with dreads in a sleeveless jacket, who gained’t cease lecturing me – by way of a robotic cellphone – about America and all the things I ever may need accomplished flawed in my life. Nope, nope, nope, nope, and, ehhh, no.

I surrender.

I head again to the town’s most important drag and discover the man who shot me within the head. You’ll do, I feel, as I gently grin and whisper one thing in his ear that he’ll always remember.