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In the 80s

September 27, 2010 in Wordsmoker Short Fiction

With apologies to Leonard Michaels

In New York City in the 80s some otherwise sane friends began taking their cat to a psychologist.

No one wanted to admit to having a television so it was always in the bedroom; never in the living room.

I started wearing Ferragamo dress shoes and refused to wear anything else even if it meant not eating for a week each month.

There were nightclubs with gauze tents where Sodom & Gomorrah were practiced. During the day the same building would show no evidence that anyone had ever been there.

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