《Ack-Ack Macaque》作者： - Gareth L. Powell【EPUB】

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ACK-ACK MACAQUE Gareth Lyn Powell * * * * * * * * Illustrated by SMS * * * * This is Gareth’s second story in Interzone . ‘The Last Reef’ appeared in issue 202 and is now available to read on our website at ttapress.com. A collection of Gareth’s short fiction will be published by Elastic Press in 2008. Further details can be found at garethlynpowell.blogspot.com * * * * I spent the first three months of last year living with a half-Japanese girl called Tori in a split-level flat above a butcher’s shop on Gloucester Road. It was more my flat than hers. There wasn’t much furniture. We slept on a mattress in the attic, beneath four skylights. There were movie posters on the walls, spider plants and glass jars of dried pasta by the kitchen window. I kept a portable typewriter on the table and there were takeaway menus and yellowing taxi cards pinned to a corkboard by the front door. On a still night, there was music from the Internet café across the street. Tori had her laptop set up by the front window. She wrote and drew a web-based anime about a radioactive short-tailed monkey called Ack-Ack Macaque. He had an anti-aircraft gun and a patch over one eye. He had a cult online following. She spent hours hunched over each frame, fingers tapping on the mouse pad. I used to sit there, watching her. I kept the kettle hot, kept the sweet tea coming. She used to wear my brushed cotton shirts and mutter under her breath. We had sex all the time. One night, after we rolled apart, I told her I loved her. She just kind of shrugged; she was restless, eager to get back to her