AUTODESIRE CHAPTER 7:

ENDLESS BATH, SOGGY DREAM

Scene:

Los Angeles, 23rd century, rain, coyotes in the hills,

There is a test for blood, looking for a contamination. Your body is split into four pieces. There is a test again for blood, looking for a contamination. Your body is split into three pieces.Each piece takes the form of a full human and you are now three or four.

Each of your segments also contains segments of memory. But each individual memory is now split into four or three, no single memory transferred over to the pieces as a whole.

Only one of you was living in your apartment when he came to pick you up in his nice big truck. You thought his name was Gnosis, and that he has sailed here from somewhere in Africa and he wore the head of coyote while he was sleeping. The memories will not re-collect, they further splinter.

Two of Three was waiting behind the big truck with a machete, she remembered his name as Beard 245, a half-mule/half-man who owns a shop that sells construction materials and various types of laborers. Down the street was One of Three and Four of Four who are boarding an alien aircraft in order to take a test for blood, looking for a contagion. Four of Four will hijack the vessel from the aliens and crash it in the Grand Canyon.

One of Three seduced a man in white jeans and a dark mustache and a tattoo of a knife. He drove a white Mercedes Benz. He didn’t know she was an alien clone hybrid. One of Three lured the white jeans man into a rooftop and made love to him while bit her nipples and called her by the wrong name. One of Three let her- self become a spider, and she put the white jeans man on a tree with her web juice string and left him there until he was cut down by a hiker and found in general good health.

The planet is now run by a plant-machine hybrid that extracts its energy from lovemaking sounds heard through mushrooms that cover small rocks and the corners of brick buildings. This society makes love often in order to power their homes.