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a fiesta of charms

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...homage to Dostoevsky...

...tired by the extremities of losing it, as mentioned to Chiga the

night before, she moved about near the edge of the bed looking

out through the window to see a few people go about their

day... an elder lady zipping up a lilac jacket that protected the

wind from a pair of particularly low hanging aged breasts, a

man wearing a burgundy turban half reading a newspaper and

half watching his footsteps, two women she knew as Clara and

Face... she nearly opened the window to call for the women,

but stopped at the thought before she picked up the bottle of

Jack that sat on the floor and took three swigs...

...the bath seemed less calming once in it, fidgeting in the dark

in the lukewarm water accidentally tasting the jasmine bubble

bath, whilst the front door went...

...the visions had started just as they reached the street corner

up next to the Pub that just closed, mostly because of the

apparent kiddie fiddler ring above it... good riddance ah...

Caba’s voice lulled towards the end of this sentence as she

remembers the week before when they went too far, she told

Chiga, without knowing that Chiga was rather complicit...

...the drunk reverie of the night turned into small violences that

she had grown accustomed to, a little punch up outside an off

licence, a bottle thrown under a lamppost lit light that

accentuates their nocturnal ways... jaded by all that was

occurring she moved ahead of them towards Dalston, past the

bars, closing clubs, towards Absie’s place... knocking and

waiting before Absie arrived to the door talking about how Fran

was up the stairs having a kip... there was a silence at this

point... before she walked in, tip toeing into the kitchen where

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