Scattered Resistance v4: Settling In

By Wetdryvac

Scattered Resistance v4 - Settling In, well - it gets into grooves. Patterns, repetitions, adjustments. 1991-1992, mostly, and it begins to more seriously address power and consent. Rarely comforting, significantly more neutral observer smoulder than Setting In.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wetdryvac
• Release date: Dec 24, 2013
• ISBN: 9781310071591

Wetdryvac

Wetdryvac: A non-gendered mechanical contrivance designed specifically for interactions with humans driven by preconception, with the thus-far successful goal of rendering such preconceptions wompsie-sideways. Currently operating out of New England, wetdryvac.net, and similarly friendly locales.

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This is a work of fiction. All events and characters portrayed in this book are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

Scattered Resistance v4 – Setting In

Copyright © 2013 by Wetdryvac

Originally published in 2000 by Bladerate Productions

For this Smashwords edition, all rights are reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.

A VacHaus Press Book

Published by VacHaus Press through Smashwords

ISBN: 9781310071591

Published in the United States of America

VacHaus Press books by Wetdryvac

Scattered Resistance (v1-v7 collected)

Scattered Resistance v1 – Childhood Waning

Scattered Resistance v2 – Inversion Promised

Scattered Resistance v3 – Setting In

Scattered Resistance v4 – Settling In

Scattered Resistance v5 – Inluminal

Scattered Resistance v6 – Below the Thermocline

Scattered Resistance v7 – Revision Nation

Sequence for Drowning

Fallen Dogs

Thrall Kind

The Lists

Easthick

Weather Spirits

Song of the Gun

November 30, 1991

black, cold rolled steel

riffled bore and soulless metal

this is the song of the gun

he lies there, unmoving

victim of his own undoing

unrecognizable -

a chiseled grey forty-four -

custom grade his weapon -

so goes the first verse

those who take the other path

no longer happy with any old world

in the street we find a second

victimized by those who like the gun had no souls

shot in darkness

metal from the barrel of a walnut forty-four -

his long walk became a longer walk

out into the night

so goes the second verse

those eliminated for what they are

where then the end, a wrong place

in another home the third is found

victim of a wife who knew full well his actions

left him for another, left him crumpled against the bedroom wall

again tailored killing of the favorite weapon

another grey and heavy forty-four -

so goes the third verse

those killed for prior action

revenge as its own justification -

he cried out his sorrows on his last breath

we find the fourth in a heap

lying among thousands on a battlefield

taken down by an army of might

victim of yet another somehow just cause

and a last black