No One Is Perfectly Cast
The Order decided he would be the one. Short in stature, sadly, but loved by many, the glare
of his teeth blinded them to the shit on his breath. Funny now, from where we
stand: a midget sock-sliding across the floor in his briefs. But it’s hard for
us to fathom the temporal nature of influence. In his own maniacal minute, he
was god.
A wife, ordered the
Order, and this is where they faltered. Model after long-legged model, each
surpassed him in her glamour, clawing up fame with nails like shrimp tails
until she had enough to make it on her own. And the irony: the least towering
of the prototypes went solo from the start. Shortly after she hatched, the
Order watched her stagger away into the night. She settled in a mossy
northwestern town: mysterious villagers, weird diner, a possibly esoteric past.
Years later, a location scout stumbled on this town.
Perfect, he told the casting director over a slice of pie. But when she showed
him a headshot of the actor she’d picked for the part of the werewolf, the
location scout balked: He reminds me of the one. A synthesizer riff hit them both at the nape of the neck, lovingly
shoving their faces toward the stage. There she stood, the least successful of the
one’s potential wives. She’d found work at
this roadhouse as its chanteuse. And even now, from where we stand, her song is
wax, is isinglass, is wary.
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