AUTODESIRE CHAPTER 8:

TENDER ROADSIDE SWEET

Setting: 

The Desert; small town on the roadside, the future, middle of nowhere, dust coatings, motel curtains, the smell of gasoline. There was an automatic diner at the roadside town, all of the food was cooked and prepared by a single robot with 45 disembodied metal arms with grasping hands. The food was quite good, the robot was programed by top diner chefs.

The diner is connected to a motel with green carpets and late 2oth century plexiglass. The motel has a pool encased in a glass terrarium, but the entrance is blocked by large tarps and blankets. A man in a flame-print toga walks past you and enters the room. 

The car loads up with the stranglers: The Odalisque and her butterfly role players. They drive like furies through the desert. Windows down. Radio up, smoke through the lungs. Occasionally the Stranglers stop the car to take photos of themselves, then they kiss each other. At the end of the ride they stop at another roadside sweet. A two light town. This one has one of those cowboy bars with just the right neon signs and cheap beer.