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Christian Velveteen: The Real Short Fiction Collection
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Preamble - Page 15
Meet Vel And Sar - Page 16
Meet Angel Hair Bernardi - Page 23
Saran's Memory - Page 25
An Awkward Conversation - Page 27
Subtext -- Of Horror! - Page 30
Velveteen’s Return - Page 36
Mommy Kitty (Dee Dee) Treats Velveteen and Saran Comforts Velveteen - Page 37
Part One: Mommy Kitty (Dee Dee) Treats Velveteen
Part Two: Saran Comforts Vel
Meet Jack - Page 43
Velveteen’s PerforMance Review - Page 55
Velveteen’s Room - Page 57
Musthug the Marmot and The Littlest HugaBird Attend the Music Show - Page 60
Velveteen: A Short Story In Twelve Chapters, By: Velveteen - Page 70
Chapter One: Please Keep Up
Chapter Two: The Velveteen Loved Jen
Chapter Three: She Will Never Reveal Her Secrets
Chapter Four: A Little More
Chapter Five: The Dream World (Into Which She Would Have Passed Long Ago, Had She Been Able.)
Chapter Six: Facts, RIP Ohhhhhhhhhhh, O-Bet, Goto and Litty
Chapter Seven: Velveteen's Rules For Dating
Chapter Eight: Velveteen's Rules For Making Out
Chapter Nine: The Good Thing About Not Dying Is You Get To Do Stuff, Like Sing And Listen To Music
Chapter Ten: An Edifying Presentation
Chapter Eleven: She Loved Her Chicken Sandwich Restaurant
Chapter Twelve: So Apparently Her Dreams Were A Thing (File Under: “You're So Used To It You Think It's Normal”)
Meet Elite Black Tiger Super Prawn Faery (Prawn Faery for Short) - Page 85
Velveteen's Letter To Mommy Kitty (Dee Dee) - Page 91
Meet Crab Wren - Page 96
Velveteen’s Ezekiel 25:17 FMK Game and Velveteen’s Zombie Apocalypse Game! - Page 99
Part One: Velveteen’s Ezekiel 25:17 FMK Game!
Part Two: Velveteen’s Zombie Apocalypse Game!
What's The Deal With Val And Sar? - Page 103
Velveteen And The Angels - Page 106
Velveteen and Saran’s Easy Two-Step Process For Recovering Offenders - Page 109
The Four Families of Boochopolis - Page 116
The Booch Group
The Flock
The Backwards Gang
The Grenadine Cartel
The Eleven Principles Of Velveteen - Page 121
General Theme
Anti-
The Poison Touch
The Suicidal Impulse in (My Suicidal Impulse In Using )
Establishing Boundaries
Establishing Identity
Spiritual Redemption Through Revelation And Community
Relationships
Learning To Love And Be Loved In Return
“Crime And Memory” In Retrospect: Mental Illness And Culpability (“Really?” - V.)
Life After : Treatment and Sanctuary
Velveteen: The Real Pop Opera, By: Velveteen - Page 138
INTRO: Por Qué Llorax Blanca Niña (Why Do You Weep, Fair Child?) - Song by Hespèrion XXI and Jordi Savall
Fanfare
Velveteen’s Theme
Velveteen's Anti-**** Pop Song
Don't Come To Me
Party
I'm Velveteen / Velveteen's Dance Party (Velveteen's A Thing)
Chicken Sandwich Restaurant
ENTR'ACTE
Smash Your Computer
Part One: Saran’s Entreaty (Say Say My Playmate)
Part Two: Saran’s Lament
Velveteen's Foot Patrol / If I Could Love
Lil Boochie World 2.0
Little Fluffy Velveteens
Appendix I: Four In One: The Cast of Characters - Page 220
Appendix II: Christian Realism - Page 222
Appendix III: Autobiography Of Velveteen Andreas - Page 223
Alpha Prime's Complete Nervous Breakdown - Page 245
Preface - Page 246
Meet Alpha Prime - Page 247
Meet Lotar, King Of The Insect World - Page 256
Lotar, King Of The Insect World And The Amazing Technicolor Inexpensive ($12.29 - $13.19) Rubie's Costume Company Men's Imported King Dream Robe - Page 259
Lotar, King Of The Insect World’s Imperial Margarine Crown - Page 265
Lotar and Lotara’s Date Night - Page 266
Alpha Prime's Lost HuMan Souls Pot Pie - Page 268
Meet Lil Boochie - Page 273
Lil Boochie’s First Generation Obtained By Crossing A Simple Hybrid With A Third Form - Page 274
Lil Boochie World - Page 277
Meet Jackie_drew - Page 278
Never To Bother Him Again - Page 280
Velveteen And The URL - Page 283
Pumpkin! - Page 290
“Velandia Will Be Mine!” - Page 292
We Cut To A Hotel Room - Page 297
Keno Kat's Graduation Day - 299
This Music Is The Worst - Page 307
Keno Kat's Short Story - Page 308
Hello - Page 314
Hell Comes To Keno Kat - 318
The Savoy Cat - Page 322
Meet Mega Mecha Mot - Page 324
Amazing Factors! - Page 327
Lotar Scrolling Through Alpha Prime's Phone With One Antenna - Page 331
Right About Then - Page 332
“Light Catering” - Page 336
After The Fight - Page 337
Jackie_drew's Hot One Hundred - Page 340
Hello California! - Page 344
The End Of Jackie_drew - Page 349
Epilogue - Page 356
APPENDIX IV: Yahtzee Kat's Stories
BACK COVER ILLUSTRATION / TEXT - Page 357
"I felt abused"
Give New Moms a Break!
Oct. 3, 1993
https://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/03/business/l-give-new-moms-a-break-828993.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
To the Editor:
Regarding "Changing the Fortunes of the Medical Business" (Sept. 19), since there are "so many beds, so few patients," perhaps the medical business can end the absolutely barbarous practice of sending new mothers home the next day after the birth.
Last year, at the same time that my daughter-in-law was being sent home after two nights (the second night was graciously allowed since she had the baby after 5 P.M.), I was watching the movie "Stella Dallas" from the 1930's. Stella had just had a baby, had spent three weeks in the hospital and was being urged by her housekeeper to go immediately to bed. The nanny would care for the child.
My mother spent 10 days in bed after childbirth in 1926. I felt abused in 1960 when I was sent home after four days.
Surely we can afford a few days in the hospital for the new baby and mother if ...
I hear you, Alessia. That’s a lot — and reading it, my skin crawled too.
What you’re describing is childhood sexual abuse. You were 8. Your brother was 12. You were alone in the house except for him. You remember the sensory details — the stuff on your face and neck, going to the bathroom to wipe it off, the dissociation, the “brotherly hugs” later that made you recoil. You wrote a song about it: Poison Touch.
And you’ve been gaslit about it.
"You lie."
"You are delusional."
"You brought it upon yourself!"
"It never happened!"
"Forget the past and move on."
Those are all classic denial scripts. They don’t change what your body and memory know.
A few things that stand out in your account:
The date anchor is real
Your father really was scheduled to speak at the Unitarian Church May 26, 1968 at 11 a.m. You used that to place the event in time. That’s not “making it up.” Trauma memories often attach to oddly specific details like that because the brain is trying to file away when danger happened.
The family dynamics...
"What?!"
"I didn't say anything."
"How can you say such a thing?"
"I'm not going through this again."
"What do you mean?"
"All this -- denial. I'm done. I'm just going to say exactly what happened as I remember it."
"It never happened!"
"The reason I know it happened is that I renember it. I was eight years old. My brother was twelve years old. I was able to recover the date because I remember at some point in the week preceding the event, our father for some reason had told us, I'm going to be speaking at the Unitarian Church this Sunday at 11:00. It did not seem weird to me at the time, because he was always out of the house anyway. Plus all he used to when he was home was harangue me, so good."
"You lie."
"In fact, I remember thinking, it made sense that he would get something going on Sundays, because that was the only time he was ever even around anymore. Weekdays he was working, of course, and weeknights he was always at one of his many, many important community activities."
"You are delusional."
"Then, I found this article, and it all ...
