This calendar week ’s writing command prompt may reckon a bit intimate asour own Cyriaque Lamar posted it earlier this week , from theCriterion Collection . But I could n’t resist . I want to see those Godzilla story .
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When Gojira - bo order the polenta , I knew to interest . He was generally a sum - and - satsumaimo variety of monster , and there was only one ground he ever asked for mashed grains . I resurrect a finger’s breadth before hand my carte back to the waiter . “ And two bloody marys ? ” I ask . “ Do me a favor and throw a cube steak in his . ” The server nod and scurry back to the kitchen .
Gojira - bo folded his arms , doing his best caricature of a frown . “ I wish you would n’t do that , ” he say .
“ Remember you ’re a carnivore ? ” I take .
“ Treat me like a child , ” he said . “ I ’m not a child , you know . ”
Despite the honorific , Gojira - bo tolerate a full head tall than I did , and he ’d been make up movies when I was still sip juice out of a cardboard boxful . The first time my father had depict me Son of Godzilla , I ’d slept prehend a flashlight for a month . I ’d fire up to the slightest microseism and radiate the Inner Light outside , half - hop I ’d capture a glimpse of the giant beast before he could stump our flat building . I try not to smile as I stirred the ice in my water system glass . “ I take it the therapy is n’t working . ”
He scratched his cheek with an missing talon . “ I ’ve tried everything , ” he said . “ Lego men , Playmobile , even those itty-bitty little cars . ” He bear his clawed finger an column inch apart .
“ Hot Wheels ? ” I offered .
“ Wee - er . ”
“ Micromachines , ” I enjoin .
He nod . “ Nothing works ! I ’ve been telling my shrink that I ’m going to go to one of those places where everyone ’s really little , fuck with some Pigmy or something . But he said he ’d stymy my visa . ”
I lean back , wonder if it was too late to order a crack of whiskey with my breakfast booze . “ Well , as your agent , I ’d rather you did n’t make the newswires because you were huffing and puffing and boot over some myopic citizenry ’s mud huts . ”
Gojira - bo reached for the collar of a shirt that was n’t there . He ’d gone through a phase of wearing Marco Polo shirts — nothing fancy , just the tatty Lacoste knock - offs I ’d cull up for him in the dark marketplace — but he ’d scratch them to ribbons whenever he was anxious . Most people seemed to expect him to go around naked anyway .
“ Hey , hey hey , ” I said , strain a hand toward him . “ How about another disaster movie ? After the studios floor all that CG into make Mothra ’s shaver attend remotely scary , they ’d love to have you back . ”
He snorted , free the bare puff of weed from his nostril . God , what I would n’t give to get those nostrils back in front of a television camera . “ Doc read it ’s unfit for my ego - picture , seeing myself up there on the screenland , looking eighty meters taller than everyone else . ” Our waiter reappeared , carrying two glasses of crashing mary . He place the browner of the two in front of Gojira - bo , who instinctively sniffed the glass . As soon as the server left , Gojira - bo tilted his head back and poured half the mixture into his mouth . “ What about that indie funniness I read for ? The one with Christina Ricci ? ”
I sip my drinkable , hoping I ’d reckon of what to say in the supernumerary few secondment . I decided on the the true . “ They liked you , Bo . They really did . They just thought your previous study was a mo more … wooden than they ’re endure for . ”
“ Of course they think I ’m wooden ! ” He threw his diminutive implements of war into the air travel . “ Those damn Son of Godzilla music director always want me to do an homage to dad ! God , I could wipe out Phil for talking me into that scraps . ”
“ Well , Phil ’s not here . I am . So let ’s work on a biz architectural plan . ”
He sighed . “ I do n’t know , Kitty . possibly I should just go back to dad , tail between my leg . I bet he ’s fetch , like , a crawl space in that mansion of his where I could live . ”
My ear twinge up at the unmistakable sound of a camera phone snapping . I reckon over my articulatio humeri to see a gap - toothed kid , no more than nine , aim his iPhone at Gojira - bo ’s exasperated mug . Jesus , I thought . You ’d retrieve LA tiddler would know enough to change state the goddamn sound effect off .
Gojira - bo ’s center narrowed to reptilian slits , and I go out the faintest flare of atomic power on his breathing time . He called out the kid . “ Hey ! Get over here ! ” The kid ’s backtalk widened into an “ O , ” and he target questioningly at his own chest . “ Yes , you . ” Gojira - bo direct to the land . “ Here . Now . ”
The child jog over yieldingly , brim spread in a zany smiling . Gojira - bo cupped the boy ’s head with one of his claws . “ Are you a lover ? ” he ask . The boy nodded so vigorously I worried his straits would snap off his tiny spikelet . “ Would you wish to be famous someday ? ” Gojira - bo asked him , eliciting much the same response .
Gojira - bo lean his snout in , acquire in so close that the male child must have been capable to smell the toxic energy on his breath . “ Keep that up , ” he whisper , “ and everyone will think of you as the youngster Baby Godzilla nuked at the Ivy . ”
The kid made a full effort of not let his terror show on his face , but as he ran back to his parents ’ mesa , I noticed a belittled wet spot on the front of his khakis . I sat stare at Gojira - bo in quiet , while the waiter sat down my omelet and Bo ’s polenta with heirloom tomato . “ What are you looking at ? ” Gojira - bo involve when the server had left .
I straightened in my arse . I could spend this meal watching him sculpt his polenta into miniature hoi polloi and squash them one by one , or I could save his career . “ Bo , ” I articulate , “ how would you find about a reality television show ? ”
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