Ommatidia » 97 http://www.ommatidia.org 101-word stories by brendan adkins, mon-fri: fiction for the attention-deprived Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:10:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ 48 http://www.ommatidia.org/2007/05/01/48/ http://www.ommatidia.org/2007/05/01/48/#comments Tue, 01 May 2007 08:36:59 +0000 Brendan http://www.xorph.com/anacrusis/2007/05/01/48/ “That is a huge cocksucker,” says Henchman 48 in awe.

Henchman 97 lifts the long gatling from its crate. “Comes with a harness, too. You actually hold it under your arm–”

“All my dad ever got,” says 48, “was an Uzi.”

“The rat-with-wings got a bulletproof cape, didn’t he? So we got depleted uranium. He cut those up with the little boomerangs, we got EMP guns, he went poly-camo.” 97 snaps on the eyepiece. “And now we got infrared…”

“Yeah, well, you know who wins an arms race.” 48 strokes the steel of his own gatling. “The arms.”

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