An American Saga Set in Kyiv
VOLUME 3 of THE KYIV COMMIX
VOLUME 3 of THE KYIV COMMIX
CONTENTS
FRAMES 245 – 340: March 2015 – Jan. 2017
COMMIX POST SCRIPTUM: PS 1/KC 341 – PS 22/KC 362: April 2017 – Feb. 2018
EPILOGUE? PS 23/KC 363 – PS 26/KC 366: March 2019
TRANSLATOR’S NOTE
COMMIX APOCRYPHA: Ap 1/KC 367 – Ap 10/KC 376: Mostly 2017, 2018 – presumably; with last one in 2020
TRASH: 1 – 10: 2013: Rejected VOLUME 1 Reports (found in a garbage can)
TOXIC WASTE 1 – 4: Four Final Frames (for now) found floating in founts of fetid, fluid, funky flotsam
VOLUME 3
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Read more: HERE BEGINS – VOLUME 3: KYIV COMMIX & THE CHECKOUT: March 15, 2015 – January 6, 2017HERE BEGINS – VOLUME 3: KYIV COMMIX & THE CHECKOUT: March 15, 2015 – January 6, 2017
STORY DIRECTORY (non-linked) for VOLUME 3 – at a glance! 245 The Clown Chronicles, No. 1 246 The Clown Chronicles, No. 2 247 The Clown Chronicles, No. 3 248 The…
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Read more: 245. KYIV COMMIX: The Clown Chronicles, No. 1245. KYIV COMMIX: The Clown Chronicles, No. 1
Chic Dickie, Diary Entry 6,000 I’m incredibly cunning and I’m incredibly clever – that’s how I’d describe myself, see. I don’t know how I know, but I keenly sense what…
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Read more: 246. KYIV COMMIX: The Clown Chronicles, No. 2246. KYIV COMMIX: The Clown Chronicles, No. 2
Needing magazine materials, Chic Dickie hosts Boss Lard As we enter upon the scene in-medias-res-like, it is Boss Lard doing the talking: You were bragging about how great your magazine…
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Read more: 247. KYIV COMMIX: The Clown Chronicles, No. 3247. KYIV COMMIX: The Clown Chronicles, No. 3
Chic Dickie, Diary Entry 6,001: A True Record and Account of What Transpired This Day: Still desperately needing magazine materials, Kyiv-based publishing Englishman Chic Dickie hosts Bodkin MacFlatus (otherwise and…
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Read more: 248. KYIV COMMIX: The Caveman Diaries248. KYIV COMMIX: The Caveman Diaries
“Good luck, Smith.” “Thanks, but I don’t need any luck.” “Well, so long then.” “So long!” John Smith, Kyiv-based detective, sets out on his journey into the hills of Podil.…
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Read more: 249. THE CHECKOUT: The Hunched Cornish in Silence249. THE CHECKOUT: The Hunched Cornish in Silence
The Sauna A naked John Smith lies on the lowest of the three levels. He can take, but this time does not want to take, the most intense heat of…
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Read more: 250. THE CHECKOUT: The Hunched Cornish in Continued Silence250. THE CHECKOUT: The Hunched Cornish in Continued Silence
The Apartment The Hunched Cornish sits back in a massive armchair and gazes upon the snowdrops* he’d placed in a water-filled vase now set in the middle of his living…
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Read more: 251. KYIV COMMIX: The Ozarks: Hill Whacker251. KYIV COMMIX: The Ozarks: Hill Whacker
Somewhere in the Ozarks stands a cabin, behind the cabin a shed, and near the shed an aging young man stripped to the waist chopping wood. His suspenders dangle from…
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Read more: 252. KYIV COMMIX: The Clown Chronicles, No. 4252. KYIV COMMIX: The Clown Chronicles, No. 4
The Black Ferret comes a-callin’ Up on the highest floor of the towering Stalin-era excrescence looming in all its bleak and monolithic ugliness above the exact nucleus of downtown Kyiv’s…
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Read more: 253. KYIV COMMIX: The Ozarks: The Road253. KYIV COMMIX: The Ozarks: The Road
We catch up with Josh Davies trekking down a dust-baked trail in the company of a man called Arnie. Josh has a pair of clodhoppers slung over his shoulders by…
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