An American Saga Set in Kyiv
VOLUME 1 of THE KYIV COMMIX
VOLUME 1 of THE KYIV COMMIX
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION & FINCH LETTER
FRAMES 1 – 132: Jan. 2013 – Aug. 2013
VOLUME 1
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“How are you feeling, Step?” Smith sits near an old couch, the arm of which cradles Step’s head, all wrapped up in a towel with ice dripping from it. “Give…
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And when they got to the end of different roads in different stories, the spider shook hands with the praying mantis and the snake shook hands with the lizard, and…
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Beetle-browed and buttoned up, Welsh Losser sits behind a heavy desk that makes him look like a miniature of himself. On the desk is a small, framed photo of him…
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It’s sundown in Kyiv, and all the cowpokes have corralled their cattle. The dust kicked up by sundry hooves traversing the ancient capital’s streets still hangs in the air, held…
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Welsh Losser makes a surprise appearance after returning, eerily changed, from trip to Venus All right, there, Billy Lee, I’ve got the mockup of that full-page PR ad for the…
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“Ok kid, hook ‘em up.” “Are you sure this is gonna work. It’s highly unorthodox, as far as interrogation procedures go…” “Take it easy, kid. If we fry ‘em, we…
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In which Rico Soiree’s features are altered – and so are Lemurov’s When last we left Josh Davies’s 9th-story Brezhnev-era apartment in Kyiv, Ukraine (see Part 1 of this report),…
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The last time we left the Ukrainian Diaspora Zebra, named Zamazda, many episodes back, at precisely this time three months ago, he had been waddling his fat short stout ugly…
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… where they cross-examine each other over tasty meals And who are the astronauts? Two Hell fiends, perhaps, skulking about incognito? Again the soothing olive hues of pseudo-Mediterranean eats, the…
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“So you see, Steve, it was time for him to die,” says The Half Guinea to the Great Kowalski. In fact, however, Steve is not great or even remarkable by…