"I can't spend my life
Waiting to get hurt"
Christian Velveteen: The Real Short Fiction Collection
Chapter Ten: "Because They're Also In A Band!"
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Jack always saved Velveteen’s room for last, because he always had to wash off his ASICS Game Point white tennis shoes afterwards, even with the Zoro Select disposable white polypropylene shoe covers he wore.
As usual, Velveteen’s assigned target zone was eeriely quiet, as if all the strobe-y blue police lights and static-y radi ...