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: PS 13/KC 353: Josh Davies Found Dead in Flat… By HimselfPS 13/KC 353: Josh Davies Found Dead in Flat… By Himself
“Are you Welsh Losser?” “No… no, NOOOO!” The room grows silent, then dark, as if nobody’s there. When illumination resumes, the strangely familiar scene of The Checkout kitchen takes hold…
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Read more: PS 14/KC 354: What’s in a Waistband?PS 14/KC 354: What’s in a Waistband?
“Good morning, everyone!” “And welcome to The Welsh Losser Emporium for middle-aged clothes-conscious men.” “Hi, I’m Hal Halfbit” “And I’m Judy McFarland… from America’s Newsroom.” But where’s Welsh Losser, PR…
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Read more: PS 16/KC 356: Kowalski’s BeatPS 16/KC 356: Kowalski’s Beat
“Hey Steve, spiff up that promo piece for the Silver School of English,” shouts the editor. It’s freezing in the newsroom, so Kowalski’s got a knit cap pulled down over…
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Read more: PS 17/KC 357: The Diary of Dirk Dickerson: A Madman Living in KyivPS 17/KC 357: The Diary of Dirk Dickerson: A Madman Living in Kyiv
John Smith enters the broken-up and frozen-over flat of his colleague Detective Dirk Dickerson through the window. Smith uses a penknife to pry open the window frame, then props it…
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Read more: PS 18/KC 358: The Devil and Dirk DickersonPS 18/KC 358: The Devil and Dirk Dickerson
The one-room flat in Podil is iced over from the floor up. The window is shattered from something heavy thrown through it. A snowdrift has begun to accumulate. White powder…
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Read more: PS 19/KC 359: The PublisherPS 19/KC 359: The Publisher
There’s a feeble green light visible through the crack under the door. Otherwise, it looks completely dark in there. There’s no sound from the other side either, except a faint clicking…
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Read more: PS 20/KC 360: The Kowalski Factor in Commix 25 January (but reported later)PS 20/KC 360: The Kowalski Factor in Commix 25 January (but reported later)
The dedicated reader of Kyiv Unedited may recall that we last observed expatriate American poet Steve Kowalski leaving the editorial offices of The Cantankerous Curmudgeon [Ed.: In “Kowalski’s Beat”], an…
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Read more: PS 21/KC 361: CluePS 21/KC 361: Clue
“To the Emporium!” “The Emporium!” The guests in dark suits and glittering evening gowns clink crystal, exchange half smiles. They settle back into high-backed upholstered chairs around a cherrywood dinner…
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Read more: PS 22/KC 362: Go WestPS 22/KC 362: Go West
The door bangs shut to produce an echo that flits from room to room in the modestly furnished flat of Zippy Zamazda. His wife, her eyes a pool of tears,…
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