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: Ap 5/KC 371: Kyiv Comics Shorts: Vol. I, Episode 1: Pulp Fiction PalookaAp 5/KC 371: Kyiv Comics Shorts: Vol. I, Episode 1: Pulp Fiction Palooka
The air high above is all dark. But blinding light takes hold over the boxing ring below. Wooden chairs crowd in around the roped-off square. White faces rise up in…
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Read more: Ap 6/KC 372: Kyiv Comics Shorts: Vol. I, Episode 2: The Fish MongerAp 6/KC 372: Kyiv Comics Shorts: Vol. I, Episode 2: The Fish Monger
‘“Here’s the money. Don’t wander off. And be sure you aren’t short-changed… for the love of Job.” ‘The Ferret, still a boy of less than 12, and dressed as one…
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Read more: Ap 7/KC 373: Kyiv Comics Shorts: Vol. I, Episode 3: Good Morning, Agent SmithAp 7/KC 373: Kyiv Comics Shorts: Vol. I, Episode 3: Good Morning, Agent Smith
The eyelids withdraw to disclose two sea-blue pools, each with a tiny pupil adrift, struggling in the morning light to enlarge, focus in on and transmit to John Smith’s mechanical…
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Read more: Ap 8/KC 374: Translations and Commentary from the Capital of Modern RusAp 8/KC 374: Translations and Commentary from the Capital of Modern Rus
The lamp burns yellow. And a patch of soft light warms the shadows below it, as these would otherwise devour the kitchen tabletop on which the lamp stands, holding to…
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Read more: Ap 9/KC 375: Cut the MustardAp 9/KC 375: Cut the Mustard
Exactly 27 years ago to this day, in a ninth-grade English composition class at the Brooklyn School of Scientists, the following essay was submitted in completion of a routine writing…
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Read more: Ap 10/KC 376: Last Rights/2020Ap 10/KC 376: Last Rights/2020
The curtains are drawn to reveal a tangle of soiled and sodden bedding that is Dirk Dickerson’s funeral pyre. The Half Guinea stands at the opening of a sterile white…
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Read more: VOLUME 3: KYIV COMMIX TRASH: 2013: Rejected Vol. 1 Reports (found in a garbage can)VOLUME 3: KYIV COMMIX TRASH: 2013: Rejected Vol. 1 Reports (found in a garbage can)
Note: The following 10 pieces were salvaged from a garbage can in the offices of Kyiv Unedited during the operation to collect, retrieve, and permanently preserve “The Kyiv Commix” before…
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Read more: TRASH KC 1. Weasel WatchTRASH KC 1. Weasel Watch
There’s something rotten in Kyiv. And it’s not the carcass of one of the city’s countless stray dogs on some forgotten footpath. A far more dangerous creature has made its…
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Read more: TRASH KC 2. Boss Lard Consults with His Lapdog Losser on Fate of Kyiv PosterTRASH KC 2. Boss Lard Consults with His Lapdog Losser on Fate of Kyiv Poster
Oh, yes sir. But I was only saying – Never you mind what you was just saying, and you have got!, and I repeat, being incapable of being more emphatic,…
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Read more: TRASH KC 3. Salvation: Boss Lard Talks to The People in re The PaperTRASH KC 3. Salvation: Boss Lard Talks to The People in re The Paper
“O, you people, gather round heya! I say! Gather round, gather round! “That’s right, don’t be shy; Boss Lard ain’t gonna hypnotize you or put you unner his spell or…
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