her luscious bod. âClothing?â she laughed, âwhy?â
âYouâll get cold,â I liedâactually sheâd get us both arrested. Itâs one thing to smoosh Tokyo and even worse, a Yakuza barâbut even glittering pink ex-squid chicks canât walk around naked. Not when hordes of cops were hustling hereâalong with fireman and paparazzi and local sashimi maniacs greedy for a slice of trapped kraken. Like the wrapper on Drunky Cod brand entrails saysâ Bring Mom these sushi guts ! âYouâre not making sense,â human Squidra laughed.
âNever have,â I shrugged.
âExcuse usâpolice,â some cop knocked on a wall. You gotta love Japanâcops that knock! Anywhere else weâd be coroner meat alreadyâhere they still follow bizarre feudal norms. âNow where?â I checked around for exitsâbut theyâre all blocked! âHmmm,â I rummaged through splayed Yakuza bods, âmaybe weâd better find some hot guns and shoot the fuzz when theyââ
âWait a sec,â Squidraâor Girl-ra or whoever she was nowâblinked way too much. âI bet these still work,â and her eyes thrummed all ghastly Tang orange tillâwhoa! Her eyeball lasers kicked in! And toasted a skewed freezer to tin dust till a charred doorway showed. âYou still got lasers ?â I gawked.
âGuess so,â Squidra blinked her eyebeams off, âdoesnât everyone?â
âProbably,â I fibbed. Look, I hadnât totaled the math yet on our mutual power relationsâand sure, sheâs minus an armâbut eyeball lasers could def tip the balance in her feminazi favor. Hello Gelding! âLetâs ditch this sake stand,â Squidra buckled her trench coat. âLead on,â I nodded as we snuck out a back alley, our limbs and minds striding into nightâand thatâs it! Thatâs enoughâplots are more boring than dead lawns. Letâs snuff this sick puppyâjoin us in book-shutting fun!
PHOTO BY MARCIA GLOVER
ABOUT RON DAKRON
Ron Dakron is the author of the novels Hello Devilfish! , infra , Newt , Hammers , and Mantids . His work runs the gamut from surrealism to sci-fi pastiche, with a prose style that he describes as âhaplessly Chicagoan and influenced by working class whites, African American slang, and Yiddish comedy.â His novels explore differing styles of poetic prose, from Romaticism to cubism, B-movie satire to mangled Japanese translation. Born in Chicago, Dakron majored in English at Elmhurst College and Lawrence University before moving to Seattle where he worked as a street violinist and house painter, and developed a confrontational poetic performance style âdrenched in faux punkery.â He began writing novels in his late twenties, and considers himself âa proud working-class novelist who dreams up Big Lit.â He lives in Seattle, WA.
Find out more about Ron Dakron online at
http://www.rondakron.com
Recent and Forthcoming Books on Three Rooms Press
PHOTOGRAPHY-MEMOIR
Mike Watt
On & Off Bass
FICTION
Ron Dakron
Hello Devilfish!
Michael T. Fournier
Hidden Wheel
Swing State
Janet Hamill
Tales from the Eternal Café
(Introduction by Patti Smith)
Eamon Loingsigh
Light of the Diddicoy
Richard Vetere
The Writers Afterlife
DADA
Maintenant:
Journal of Contemporary Dada Art & Literature
(Annual poetry/art journal, since 2008)
SHORT STORY ANTHOLOGY
Have a NYC:
New York Short Stories
Annual Short Fiction Anthology
HUMOR
Peter Carlaftes
A Year on Facebook
ESSAYS
Richard Katrovas
Raising Girls in Bohemia: Meditations of an American Father
PLAYS
Madeline Artenberg &
Karen Hildebrand
The Old In-and-Out
Peter Carlaftes
Triumph For Rent (3 Plays)
Teatrophy (3 More Plays)
MIXED MEDIA
John S. Paul
Sign Language:
A Painters Notebook
TRANSLATIONS
Thomas Bernhard
On Earth and in Hell
(poems by the author in
C. J. Cherryh
Learning to Kill: Stories
John O'Riley
Brenda Sinclair
Christopher George
Stephen Lloyd Jones
Karl Iagnemma
Celya Bowers
Jill Gregory
Aria Cunningham