Pat Cadigan - Pretty Boy Crossover
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PRETTY BOY CROSSOVER
PRETTY BOY CROSSOVER
by Pat Cadigan
[23 nov 2001—scanned and proofed for #bookz]
Every few years there appears a movement to improve or modernize
or even "futurize" the writing of science fiction. The classic example
was the New Wave, which had an effect on the style of SF literature
and has been comfortably tamed and digested. Now there is something
called "cyberpunk, " of which we have yet to learn a clear definition. It
has something to do with computers and their programming and
possibly— considering the derogatory term "punk "—with snubbing
accepted traditions. This short story is said to be an example of
"cyberpunk." It is certainly different from anything H.G. Wells, Jules
Verne, or Hugo Gernsback would have dreamed up.
First you see video. Then you wear video. Then you eat video. Then you be video.
—The Gospel According to Visual Mark
Watch or Be Watched.
—Pretty Boy Credo
"Who made you?"
"You mean recently?"
Mohawk on the door smiles and takes his picture. "You in. But only you, okay?
Don't try to get no friends in, hear that?"
"I hear. And I ain't no fool, fool. I got no friends."
Mohawk leers, leaning forward. "Pretty Boy like you, no friends?"
"Not in this world." He pushes past the Mohawk, ignoring the kissy-kissy sounds.
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PRETTY BOY CROSSOVER
He would like to crack the bridge of the Mohawk's nose and shove bone splinters
into his brain but he is lately making more effort to control his temper and
besides, he's not sure if any of that bone splinters in the brain stuff is really true.
He's a Pretty Boy, all of sixteen years old, and tonight could be his last chance.
The club is Noise. Can't sneak into the bathroom for quiet, the Noise is piped in
there, too. Want to get away from Noise? Why? No reason. But this Pretty Boy has
learned to think between the beats. Like walking between the raindrops to stay
dry, but he can do it. This Pretty Boy thinks things all the time—all the time.
Subversive (and, he thinks so much that he knows that word subversive, sixteen,
Pretty, or not). He thinks things like how many Einsteins have died of hunger and
thirst under a hot African sun and why can't you remember being born and why is
music common to every culture and especially how much was there going on that
he didn't know about and how could he find out about it.
And this is all the time, one thing after another running in his head, you can see
by his eyes. It's for def not much like a Pretty Boy but it's one reason why they
want him. That he is a Pretty Boy is another and one reason why they're halfway
home getting him.
He knows all about them. Everybody knows about them and everybody wants
them to pause, look twice, and cough up a card that says, Yes, we see
possibilities, please come to the following address during regular business hours
on the next regular business day for regular further review. Everyone wants it but
this Pretty Boy, who once got five cards in a night and tore them all up. But here
he is, still a Pretty Boy. He thinks enough to know this is a failing in himself, that
he likes being Pretty and chased and that is how they could end up getting him
after all and that's b-b-b-bad. When he thinks about it, he thinks it with the
stutter. B-b-b-bad. B-b-b-bad for him because he doesn't God help him want it,
no, no n-n-n-no. Which may make him the strangest Pretty Boy still live tonight
and every night.
Still live and standing in the club where only the Prettiest Pretty Boys can get in
any more. Pretty Girls are too easy, they've got to be better than Pretty and
besides, Pretty Boys like to be Pretty all alone, no help thank you so much. This
Pretty Boy doesn't mind Pretty Girls or any other kind of girls. Lately, though he
has begun to wonder how much longer it will be for him. Two years? Possibly a
little longer? By three it will be for def over and the Mohawk on the door will as
soon spit in his face as leer in it.
If they don't get to him.
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