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Ransack, Butterfly
By Sikivu Hutchinson From Rock ‘N’ Roll Heretic: The Life and Times of Rory Tharpe, March 2021 When she was six, Sid cut open a radio to see if there were people in it. Disappointed by the sprawl of colored wires … Continue reading
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Helter Skelter, 1978
By Sikivu Hutchinson From Rock ‘N’ Roll Heretic: The Life and Times of Rory Tharpe On the toilet, Rory could make out the sounds of tentative gasps and grunts, demon beating, pint-sized exorcisms rising symphonic in the next stall. Tan white … Continue reading
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The Toast of Boise
By Sikivu Hutchinson From, Rock ‘N’ Roll Heretic: The Life and Times of Rory Tharpe After years of being on the road touring, running down the known universe like a radioactive bloodhound, Rory had stopped checking miles on highway signs. In … Continue reading
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White Lady Coin of the Realm
By Sikivu Hutchinson (from Rock ‘N’ Roll Heretic: The Life and Times of Rory Tharpe) They got up from their work stations to see the commotion outside the window, pressing into the pane, agitated, fingers hot and stiff as dynamite sticks … Continue reading
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Lobotomy Wings
By Sikivu Hutchinson (From Rock ‘N’ Roll Heretic) There were things you could do with dead bodies that were most exhilarating. Things Katy had only dreamed of as a girl, lusting after the medical instruments the white boys tinkered with at … Continue reading
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Brian Wilson’s Pipsqueak Twang, 1964*
By Sikivu Hutchinson Got her first paying job at ten drying dishes in a tea shop, socking away the white lady proprietor’s bottom of the wishing well pennies in a jam jar. Dream was to buy a record store, own … Continue reading
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$15 Motel Room
By Sikivu Hutchinson* Card watched the Little Rock lightning crack through the sky and took another bite of orange. Rind, sticky pulp, seeds and all. An acid plague in his buck teeth. Rind was medicinal, kept the doctor and the … Continue reading
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White Nights, Black Paradise, The Play: Casting Notice
Stage play casting for White Nights, Black Paradise: Taryn Strayer, an African American lesbian accountant in her late 30s-late 40s. Intelligent and reserved. Zephyr Threadgill, a fifty-something African American woman who enjoys her unofficial role as Temple “prosecutor”. Carol, a … Continue reading
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L & D
By Sikivu Hutchinson What would have been my life is blackness. But here I am on my skateboard. Kick, ride, kick. Black as the rhythm of stones being thrown against a car bumper or respirators sighing in unison, marking time … Continue reading
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Nashville, 1978
Sound check. Cochlea peeling feedback. Tuning till doomsday, then more tuning. Roadies flopping and panting across the stage, lion taming cables, speakers, amps. C to E minor was home for her. Shudder, slide, shudder. Then thump the strings with … Continue reading
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