I just discovered that what appears to be the entire text of the extreme noir anthology EXPLETIVE DELETED is viewable online via Google.  Including my own contribution LIKE A LADY.  

A few caveats:First, I have no idea if Jen Jordan, editor of the anthology, or her publisher, Bleak House, know that the entire text is up there. I’m guessing that they do not. I’ve had previous experience with a Google “excerpt” from one of my own books turning out to be every last word. They were perfectly agreeable about pulling it down, and I certainly do believe that it was an accident on their part, but the text had not been posted with my or my publisher’s blessings. I suspect that something similar has happened here, and that the book may well be coming down soon.

Second, and in the meantime, I heartily encourage anyone who wants to to follow the links up top and below directly to my story. Other contributors may feel differently, so I can’t endorse reading anything you find there that I did not write.

Lastly, LIKE A LADY is a grotesque little knob of tendon that is likely to stick in the craw of anyone who has had the slightest misgiving about the content of any of my stories or novels. Seriously, it’s a sick piece of work and is not at all for everyone. If your taste is not geared toward the gutter stuff, stay the fuck away from this one.

enjoy,

-c

Newer and better ways to maim and kill, as repoted by NewScientist.

“A gun that fires variable speed bullets and which can be set to kill or to wound is being built by a US toy manufacturer. The weapon is based on technology used to control a toy rocket system.”

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The Montauk Project, assorted links, with thanks to Hugh Gallagher.

Wikipedia:

“The Montauk Project was alleged to be a series of secret United States government projects conducted at Camp Hero or Montauk Air Force Station on Montauk, Long Island for the purpose of developing powerful psychological warfare weaponry.”

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Wikipedia:

 “Camp Hero(also known as Fort Hero or the Montauk Air Force Station) was a military base at Montauk Point on the eastern tip of Long Island, New York.”

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disinformation:

“You’ve got to love a story that is stranger than any fiction but claims to be the God’s honest truth. What could be more fabulously outrageous than the idea that your tax dollars have subsidized the demented experiments of an evil cabal of Navy brass, CIA shrinks, fugitive Nazis and Reptoid ETs?”

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Yes, those are voices in your head, as reported by NewScientist.

“A US company claims it is ready to build a microwave ray gun able to beam sounds directly into people’s heads.”

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The great photo-documentarian of the streets’ lower depths, as covered by the NY Times.

“ON the north side of Broome Street, between the Bowery and Elizabeth Street, you can stand where a dead guy once lay. Of course in New York City you can stand on lots of spots where dead people once lay.”

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The disturbing and painful phenomenon of knowing that you have been targeted for harassment.

 And assortment of sites related to Targeted Individuals, Electro Magnetic Attack, Voice to Skull, etc:

freedomfchs.com

“Millions of people across this country and the globe are being targeted for harassment in various forms by a growing number of harassment groups. Citizens are being watched, followed, monitored and tortured; their private lives invaded, ruined, and many kept in virtual isolation from friends and family.”

rhfweb.com

“I, Thomas Daniel Clark, am writing this statement to request that congress and other agencies in the US and USA government check into and end all public, secret, super secret, shadow governmental programs, and agreements made by outsourcing, to use surveillance, mind control, directed energy weapons, chemical and nuclear technologies, weather control technologies, or any other type of technology and program which violates the constitutional rights and/or harms the health, happiness and privacy rights of any US and USA citizen, which includes myself, family and associates.”

stopcovertwar.com

“Tired of isolation?  Looking to communicate with other Targeted Individuals?There are Millions of Victims out there.  The trick is to find them!”

 us-government-torture.com

“Once charged the implants can output low frequencies that will transverse the interior of the body. The implants can also emit higher frequency which will migrate to the body’s surface and cause heating of the skin; this effect is often misunderstood and thought to be from the directed energy itself instead of from an internal source.”

Reason number one is so I can read the commentary about all the amazing pulp covers scanned at pulpnivoria.

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The list of reasons to legalize it grows longer and sadder, as reported by the NY Times.

“ A massacre here two weeks ago has turned this once sleepy town into a ghostly emblem of the drug violence that has swept Mexico over the last year and a half, gutting local police forces, terrifying citizens and making it almost impossible for the authorities to assert themselves.”

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Another sign of impending global doom, as reported by the NY Times.

“The bandit pulled his truck to the back of a Burger King in Northern California one afternoon last month armed with a hose and a tank.”

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The one-hundred and first thing to do with a hedgehog, as found by Dallas Hill, and reported by the Dayton Daily News.

“A New Zealand man who assaulted a teen by hitting him with a spine-covered hedgehog has been fined by a court and ordered to pay most of his fine to his victim.”

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Just plain wondefully strange, as reported by the NY Times.

“The chemicals are kept apart in the plant tissue, but when the tissues are crushed (as when bitten by an insect) they mix and toxic mustard oil is produced.”

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The holy donut, as found amongst many wonders at the you-are-here.com photo gallery.

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Burn, baby, burn, as reported by the LA Times.

“A stubborn brush fire burned nearly a fifth of Griffith Park, among the largest municipal parks in the country, before firefighters brought the blaze under control on Wednesday.”

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Trauma cleaners at work, as reported by Christine Pelisek in LA Weekly.

““I also found blood and skull in the other units,” he adds matter-of-factly to his three companions.”

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The basics, as found on howstuffworks.com.

“Mopping up after someone who dies violently is the responsibility of that person’s family.”

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Almond jacking, as reported by the SF Chronicle.

“If the legendary Bonnie and Clyde were alive today, they might be stealing almonds instead of robbing banks.”

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City of Cemetaries, as reported by the NY Times.

“Years ago this tiny city’s 18-hole golf course was sliced in half. Last spring the nine-hole course became a shorter nine. Next to feel the squeeze was the pet cemetery, which sacrificed half its two acres.”

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How that killer bee thing actually works, as reported by the NY Times.

“David Bradshaw has endured countless stings during his life as a beekeeper, but he got the shock of his career when he opened his boxes last month and found half of his 100 million bees missing.”

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Another way to inspire revolution, as reported by the NY Times.

“It’s a short trip from the excesses of Beverly Hills to the despair of skid row. Few architects bother to make it.”

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Modern rustlers and suchlike, as found at the California Farm Bureau Federation.

“There have always been cattle rustlers, thieves and other assorted bad apples, but these days crime is taking hold over California farms and ranches like never before.”

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