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I would very much like you to read this.

It’s been quite a while since I pimped this properly and I have more readers dropping in these days, so I might as well be blatant…

Ill Repute is an online fiction project by myself and David Maybury concerning the adventures of estimable men-about-town Eli Mordino and George Fournier. We update more or less once a week (for a given value of “more or less”) and we’re currently in the middle of our first story arc (story arcs: just like you see on the television). Any more description I try to give will descend into noncey apron-wringing so I shall link you to the first post and leave you it.

The Life & Times…

I feel like I’m on the verge of something. I don’t know what.

The facts, as they stand: a taste of stale apples for the third morning in a row; trousers full of change from money I don’t remember spending; a growing habit of waking in an armchair. Also, a bitter kind of sense that dirty jokes at 4am is becoming a main event.

Today’s chair is somewhat towards the leather end of the spectrum, and it takes a few attempts to peel myself up. The balance isn’t the greatest and the sleeping bodies on the floor make for tricky navigation. A homeless man I dragged along is curled up to a radiator, arms twitching, no doubt still off his arse on rubbing alcohol. I leave him to it.

The sunlight is a little too much and necessitates some casual leaning in the doorway, arms folded and a certain level of cold sweat… but no one seems to notice, or they give no indication. The vision clears far enough to surmise that we’re somewhere over Ranelagh direction and I edge towards what could be a taxi.

The driver watches me crawl in, yellow teeth cracking out of a black smile.

“Where to?”

It’s a decent question.

Sophisticated pantslessness, bonus readables

I happened across this on Wikipedia:

Going commando, the act of not wearing undergarments in popular culture

That’s pretty specific. What if you don’t wear underwear at, say, an opera? Is there a different name for that? I suggest something along the lines of “going commandeau”.

Via reddit: Wikihistory by Desmond Warzel, a very good flash piece about fictional science.

Please finally note that, after some arse-aroundery, we have decided that from now on Ill Repute will update twice weekly: Eli’s post on Monday, George’s on Thursday. Do have a read.

Edit: Make that George on Monday, Eli on Thursday. Arses are still mildly rotating.

New fiction: Ill Repute

… in which George Fournier and Eli Mordino have diverse adventures.