Welcome Thieves

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The following stories have appeared elsewhere, often in different form. “Nick in Nine (9) Movements” in Litro Magazine. “Hey Monkey Chow” in Bat City Review. “D.C. Metro” in The Nervous Breakdown. “All Dreams Are Night Dreams” in Narrative Magazine. “And Now Let’s Have Some Fun” in Identity Theory. “Tiffany Marzano’s Got a Record” in Redivider. “Comedy Hour” in Another Chicago Magazine. “Exposure” in Instant City. “Welcome Thieves” in Glimmer Train.

Nick becomes Nikki, Duff was always Duff. They start playing in ninth grade because Duff’s stepbrother is in a band called Lewinsky Rescue and sometimes the stepbrother gets laid, so why not? But mostly they drink and wear tube socks and have a van. It’s fun. They come up with a name, Torrentials, and play hardcore, which is not punk and so involves constantly correcting people. Duff says, “Hardcore is to a pickax what punk is to lipstick.”

There are some fights.

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