Pygmy

Dispatch Fourth

Begins here fourth account of operative me, agent number 67, seated among sleeping vault of host sister. Domestic structure Cedar. Suburb community XXXXXX. Date XXXXXX. For official record, have no yet violated secure entry host sister vagina. More easy this agent able violate secure American nation border.

Current now, curving sinew spiraling tail of smoke arise white out tip solder iron, smoke drawing pattern in air, iron perched between cat finger like cigarette holder old film, host sister brandish, say, “Hey, Pygmy, when school starts…” Say, “Are you going out for science fair?”

Mouths of operative me say, “Define?”

Cat sister squint eye at heat, molten solder liquid lead metal atop work surface, say, “It’s easy.” Making solder electric circuits, say, “You invent something bullshit and they give you a free trip to the city.” Bunch shoulders at own ears, make shrugged, say, “But science is totally the hot where-it’s-at.”

Ear of operative me steady consume sister word, only no able decipher. This agent sit balanced upon edge host sister bed, mattress pile with blanket, patterned many animals of brown weave through cover blanket. Animal all smile. Brown animal clench string bound to floating bladder inflated helium. Silly animal.

Host sister drip and draw in melted lead metal, breathing snake tail of smoke.

Host sister bed vault, all plaster surface colored yellow paint. Floor, layered yellow matting crafted with million strands yarn. Window observe leaves of outside tree. Light craning on stork neck illuminate where sister sit, tilt to watch where solder melt. Electric bulb of light strong bright.

Door position, healed. Next now, rap, rap, rap knocking opposite surface of door. Other room voice say, “Sweetheart, can I borrow some batteries?”

Host sister, cat sister remain head tilted. Eye rest on tip solder wand. Say, “What size?”

Door swing so reveal host chicken mother, claw gripping opposite handle. Mother say, “Knock, knock.” Eyes rest upon operative me, smile same fake as brown animal patterned in blanket. Chicken mouth say, “Double-A, triple-A, I’ll take whatever you got.”

No look away solder project, cat sister say, “Try my radio.” Say, “They’re D-sized, but they’re pretty new.”

Chicken mother strut small parade to table, side of bed. Claw scratch open hatch in behind black plastic box contraption. Spill from, one to eight cylinders, land plop-plop on bedcover blanket. Cylinder bounce and roll. Host mother gather, bony talon hand secure eight into trouser side pockets. Mouth say, “Any more?”

Veiled within smoke, haloed and misted pale smoke of hot metal, sister face say, “Try my Talking Teddy bear.”

Mother claws pry open skin of stuffed bear. Miniature false bear. Skin of behind swing open so reveal cylinder, chicken claw scrape hollow. Bear gutted. Conceal battery cylinder into trouser. Mouth say, pitch more high, “Any more?”

Wreathed of metal cigarette holder, glowing hot wand, sister face say nothing. Silent. Nose vent metal smoke. Acrid. Mouth say, “Try my rape siren, in my backpack.” Fuming solder smoke, say, “God, Mom, you’re pathetic.”

Chicken mother strut to location fabric container rest at floor below window. Claw scratch from pocket small trumpet, twist end and void two cylinder. Trouser pocket swollen many cylinders, host mother scramble until door, say, “Thanks, sweetheart.” Say, “You two play nice.” Drag door until healed into wall. Foot sounds, smaller, gone.

Face tilted, eye cover skin make squint within floating path, curve corkscrew white threads smoke, host sister say, “I can’t believe my own mother would put her orgasm above me maybe getting raped …”

Hands shoving metal worm solder metal to melt against heat solder iron. Paint liquid metal pattern on circuit board work project. In breathe snaking white smoke, cat sister say, “Trust me, Pygmy, don’t go down to the basement for a while.” Say, “Mom’s throwing one of her fukkerware parties.” Say, “It used to be her and her friends would force each other to buy these plastic boxes for leftover food. Now they sit around test-driving vibrators.”

Eyes of operative me solely rest on sister. Beyond sheet window glass, under beyond tree, along sidewalk stand operative Magda, no suffocated, brown eyes rested on here.

Host sister say, “It’s these sex toys they use to climax.” Say, “That’s why the batteries.”

Miniature invisible shake grow out bed, spring of mattress, floor of chamber shimmy. Tiny shake make dance yellow fabric window veil. Miniature shimmy shiver innards of operative me, tiny pulse massage weapon within trouser.

Tool knife shiver route across work surface, past host sister elbow, closer edge to drop. Next now, cat sister seize knife one now before drop to floor. Rest knife more far from edge work surface, say, “What torques me is how my mom’s generation started a revolution for equal rights and just ended up in the basement jacking off.” Say, “But I guess I could make the same complaint about my dad’s generation and the Internet…”

Beyond window glass, Magda steady as tree. Rooted. Waited.

Say, stealth calm as green tree sloth, say, “Esteemed host sister, what is labor position of respected father?”

Repeat shoulders made shrugging, cat sister say, “Something with the government. Developing new strains of some virus or something.” Eat smoke in mouth, vent burnt metal smoke out nostril.

Speech of operative me, this agent fashion worry scared, say, “Glorious father craft deadly virus?”

Craning light on work surface, throw bright bulb illuminate solder work, next now less bright. Bulb shrink from white to yellow. Dim in room layer white smoke. Next now, repeat glow bright.

Host sister eye bulb, say, “Gross, they’ve graduated from direct current to alternating.”

This agent, say, “Clarify?”

“From battery sex toys to ones that plug into outlets,” say host sister. Solder draw into pattern, link diode, transistor, transducer, mystery project, host sister say, “Build a better vibrator, Pygmy, and the world will beat a path to your door.”

Eye blink against white smoke, cat sister say, “What scares me is how the Chinese are light-years ahead of us in the sex toy race…”

Eye of operative me cast to rest against Magda, outside, ready wait vessel for seed of this agent. Mouths of this agent quote fascist tyrant, lunatic emperor Adolf Hitler, say, ‘“The day of individual happiness has passed.’”

Host sister say, “What are your folks like?” Sister hair gather behind head, braided single rope. Sister buttocks cupped in work chair, cat sister say, “I mean, what was your childhood like?” Say, “What’s it like where you come from?”

Next then, hands of operative me grip yellow fabric veil window, layer fabrics so meet in center, blocking view tree, outside, Magda. Eclipse.

Quote, “The day of individual happiness has passed.”

Next now crane light shining work surface, bulb die black. Smoke no rise white out solder iron. Solder grow cool until weld, stuck to iron. Cat sister say, “Shit.” Project hesitated. Say, “Those horny housewives…”

Chamber dim, darken, operative me say, “Clarify?”

Twins of operative me and cat sister seated inside dark, host sister say, “My guess is they’ve tripped a circuit breaker.”

And this agent say, “Revision.” Say, “Please, tell repeat nature host father security, government priority top-secret labors?” Say, “Provide more detail, please.”