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And because I found it funny, I wanted to post a story extract that came up in my English lecture today.

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"It all began that day in the bookstore coffee shop - when Cleve saw the young woman reading a magazine called Straight News. Or was it Straight Times? Straight News or Straight Times: one or other. Take your pick.

Now Cleve liked to think of himself as a reasonably civilized guy. Live and let live, he'd say. He didn't have any kind of problem with straights [...] The young woman was being joined by her young man. By her lover: this was instantly clear. Of course you saw it all the time these days (downtown, anyway), straights kissing in public, on the lips and everything - open mouthed, even with tongues, like a demonstration. Cleve was only thirty-eight, but in his lifetime people used to go to fucking jail for doing that."

- Martin Amis, 'Straight Fiction' in Heavy Water and Other Stories.

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I thought the slashers on my f-list might enjoy it. :)

Hhhmm. I really need to do this CW thing now. Hhhhhhhmmmm.

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