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I'm in love with the writing style of Caitlin Duffy. What a discomforting, and perfectly written opening paragraph, and the story gets weirder from there. From the October issue of Cosmic Horror Monthly. #writing#weirdfiction

"A man in his mid-to-late forties sits at the edge of the motel bed, the thin moss-green duvet disheveled and littered with watermarked papers. He looks like a politician: expensive suit, bright red tie, a slightly-too-large American flag pinned to his lapel. He peels back the lid of a chocolate pudding container and tosses it to the floor, no doubt adding another stain to the carpet. There is no spoon in sight. He sticks three manicured fingers directly into the pudding. Even from where I crouch a few feet above him, I can hear the wet *phlop* as the pads of his fingers, his nails, his cuticles, his knuckles submerge. Cupping his fingers, he brings them to his mouth. He sucks them clean, greedily lapping up the chocolate slop like a very naughty kitten.
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