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Throwing Smoke
He liked it when they played the big cities, or at least, the bigger cities, the ones with a big enough population to keep everybody from knowing everybody else, large enough to sustain that area of town a man could go when he didn't want his business known by anyone else he knew.
Shousetsu Bang*Bang volume 5, issue 20
http://www.shousetsubangbang.com/issu...
Words:22717 complete
Shousetsu Bang*Bang volume 5, issue 20
http://www.shousetsubangbang.com/issu...
Words:22717 complete
68 pages, ebook
First published January 1, 2009
7 people want to read
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Shukyou
44 books85 followersI'm W2 (pronounced 'whit-two'), also known as ladysisyphus, shukyou, and Whitney Bishop.
You can find all my stories written as 'shukyou' at http://www.shousetsubangbang.com/mirr..., and you can find most of those same stories (without illustrations) plus some fanfic at http://archiveofourown.org/users/lady....
I'm also the editor-in-chief of http://shousetsubangbang.com/ , where we put out nine delightfully dirty issues of short stories and art a year! We're always looking for new participants, so if you're interested, check out the website.
I also do other things in my real life, hence the pseudonymity. But I promise I'm friendly!
You can find all my stories written as 'shukyou' at http://www.shousetsubangbang.com/mirr..., and you can find most of those same stories (without illustrations) plus some fanfic at http://archiveofourown.org/users/lady....
I'm also the editor-in-chief of http://shousetsubangbang.com/ , where we put out nine delightfully dirty issues of short stories and art a year! We're always looking for new participants, so if you're interested, check out the website.
I also do other things in my real life, hence the pseudonymity. But I promise I'm friendly!
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July 22, 2014
it is high, it is far, it is...
...really pretty good.
if baseball is your game, or you really like an idealization of 1920s american baseball culture with a queer romance plot—this one's for you.
we are still pretty nuts for the game, as a society—but nowhere near as nuts for it as we were a hundred years ago, when we apparently decided that all our best heroes should fight with sticks and mitts, and not swords and shields.
or guns and nothing, in a ditch somewhere.
i loved the flavor of this one, and the pace. it went down like good whiskey.
which is why the ending made me cough and splutter like a newbie.
never a clearer reason why shousetsu bang bang should really raise their word-count limit. this one came off the bat like a grand slam, but fell out of the sky at the track like a pop fly.
shukyou ran outta room, and it's a pity. but i really liked it anyway.
...really pretty good.
if baseball is your game, or you really like an idealization of 1920s american baseball culture with a queer romance plot—this one's for you.
we are still pretty nuts for the game, as a society—but nowhere near as nuts for it as we were a hundred years ago, when we apparently decided that all our best heroes should fight with sticks and mitts, and not swords and shields.
or guns and nothing, in a ditch somewhere.
i loved the flavor of this one, and the pace. it went down like good whiskey.
which is why the ending made me cough and splutter like a newbie.
never a clearer reason why shousetsu bang bang should really raise their word-count limit. this one came off the bat like a grand slam, but fell out of the sky at the track like a pop fly.
shukyou ran outta room, and it's a pity. but i really liked it anyway.
July 23, 2014
Reads beautifully. All the words are assured and poignant.
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