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from Excesses (on a little flight)


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they are showing a b-movie in which a bearded gangster carrying a table leg like a club roams a subterranean forest
protecting two children who have the keys to the secret garden. a robot threatens them and there are several fires. They
end up talking politics.


*


seeing as how food laden carts block the access to the mine, humanity is saved and the vice-manager of the spanish
phone company fills out a form to be allowed back in the hotel. she is very relaxed, when she sits down her tights
become completely exposed. there is a convention of taxi drivers at the end of which a garage gets divvied up into a
bunch of churches. some taxi drivers take the religious vows without exiting their cars.


*


a group of japanese scientists invents a photograph from which it is possible to escape, another group invents more
powerful fixers. they fight it out.


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three japanese scientists disguised as four chinese scientists move from a cloud of dust to a foggy passage. they sink and
Roger Moore appears behind little white tablets. since gravity is down to zero playing cards are floating and the other
players cannot be trusted. The headsets they wear inside the helicopter that carries them to safety are so large that they
cannot move. they would destroy the cockpit. they land. only after the landing they take off the headsets. much pain.
their ears bleed and are even bigger than the headsets. they are imprisoned and some shout, others give up.


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a thunderous sound is heard inside the dinner. it comes from bowls of anti-matter on the other side.

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Marco Giovenale

Marco Giovenale (1969) lives and works in Rome. He writes in Italian and (sometimes in) English. His most recent book, GLITCHASEMICS, was published by Post-Asemic Press in 2020.

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