Category: One Decadent Life

  • CHAPTER 39: THE PAINT-BRUSH

    One Decadent Life: Part Two CHAPTER 39 THE PAINT-BRUSH   … did anyone think he couldn’t do it? But he could. He could do it. David in his fretful sleep twitched like a dog, his eyelids spasm’d, he groaned and whimpered. The fireplace had burnt out, the temperature in the room gone cold. At regular…

  • CHAPTER 38: SHOOTING LESSON

    One Decadent Life: Part Two CHAPTER 38 THE SHOOTING LESSON   [[ IN PROGRESS ]]   ================================== ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ==================================================================   COPYRIGHT Held and ALL RIGHTS RESERVED by TERENCE SELLERS 1985-2016   ================================================================== ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

  • CHAPTER 37: HEROIN DEMON

    One Decadent Life: Part Two CHAPTER 37 HEROIN DEMON   Just past five she was awake all at once, to see him standing in her room, his back to her, staring out the eastern window. Without, a gibbous moon faded in a thin blue dawn. Venus hovered upon the horizon, with the bright glint she…

  • Chapter 36: THE CAT

    One Decadent Life: Part Two CHAPTER 36 THE CAT   David understood he was not going to sleep again that night. He had turned on the generator, to run the electric heaters, and it was groaning like a banshee, eerie whine in the wind, and then… that cat! Its yowlings weirdly punctuated the night. Gawd…

  • Chapter 35: ON FIRE MESA

    One Decadent Life: Part Two CHAPTER 35 ON FIRE MESA   Angelique’s Diary Entry December 29th, 1985 Fire Mesa Archuleta, New Mexico   It took us three entire days to get here, a Byzantine flight. We flew from Miami to Washington, and came down in an ice-storm. Then the airline expected us to get back…

  • Chapter 34: GO WEST OLD FIEND

    One Decadent Life: Part Two CHAPTER 34 GO WEST, OLD FIEND   Angelique’s Diary Entry Christmas Morning 1985, 11 AM Saint Barthelemy   Waking up with a blasted brain, hangover sickness, oh my gods and goddesses what did I do to myself last night? I think I absorbed David’s bile and actually BECAME the bastard.…

  • Chapter 33: ALTIMA AND ULTIMA

    One Decadent Life: Part Two CHAPTER 33 ALTIMA AND ULTIMA   [[ Edit complete January 4, 2015 ]]   “Mademoiselle Angelique? Forgive me for calling…” “It’s quite alright, M’sieur. I was preparing to call you…” “I awaited your call, and grew impatient I must admit. I did keep it in the mind, the ‘Causewells,’ They…

  • Chapter 32: SELL YOU A MONKEY

    One Decadent Life: Part Two CHAPTER 32 SELL YOU A MONKEY   When Angelique woke up the sun was shining, birds were singing, and David was shrieking into the telephone: “You are ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBLE to talk to about ANYTHING! I FORBID you to come down here! I don’t WANT you here! Angelique moaned softly as…

  • Chapter 31: BEAST AND SCARLET WOMAN

    One Decadent Life: Part Two CHAPTER 31 Beast and Scarlet Woman   David woke up screaming. The nightmare had followed him, thousands of miles from the copping-fields of the Lower East Side. Somewhere in the dereliction of Delancey Street, in absolute torment of body and mind, against his will he is moved to the center…

  • Chapter 30: MAGICKAL WORKINGS

    One Decadent Life: Part Two CHAPTER 30 MAGICKAL WORKINGS   Eunice was doing a vigorous clean-up in the bedrooms of the ‘debbils.’ The smell was atrocious, and though she knew what it meant, still she was not used to it. She shoved all the bedding into the two washers; when the tumblers were full of…