{"id":836,"date":"2019-05-31T10:49:31","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T16:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bryanberg.net\/files\/?page_id=836"},"modified":"2019-06-01T05:10:16","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T11:10:16","slug":"marked","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bryanberg.net\/files\/portfolio-fiction\/magic-realism\/marked\/","title":{"rendered":"Marked"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\"  style='background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:30px;'><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row \"><div  class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion_builder_column_2_3 fusion-builder-column-0 fusion-two-third fusion-column-first 2_3\"  style='margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;width:66.66%;width:calc(66.66% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.6666 ) );margin-right: 4%;'><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper\" style=\"padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;\"   data-bg-url=\"\"><div class=\"fusion-content-boxes content-boxes columns row fusion-columns-1 fusion-columns-total-1 fusion-content-boxes-1 content-boxes-icon-with-title content-left\" data-animationOffset=\"100%\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:60px;\"><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-content-boxes-1 .heading .content-box-heading {color:#a0ce4e;}\n\t\t\t\t\t.fusion-content-boxes-1 .fusion-content-box-hover .link-area-link-icon-hover .heading .content-box-heading,\n\t\t\t\t\t.fusion-content-boxes-1 .fusion-content-box-hover .link-area-link-icon-hover .heading .heading-link .content-box-heading,\n\t\t\t\t\t.fusion-content-boxes-1 .fusion-content-box-hover .link-area-box-hover .heading .content-box-heading,\n\t\t\t\t\t.fusion-content-boxes-1 .fusion-content-box-hover .link-area-box-hover .heading .heading-link .content-box-heading,\n\t\t\t\t\t.fusion-content-boxes-1 .fusion-content-box-hover .link-area-link-icon-hover.link-area-box .fusion-read-more,\n\t\t\t\t\t.fusion-content-boxes-1 .fusion-content-box-hover .link-area-link-icon-hover.link-area-box .fusion-read-more::after,\n\t\t\t\t\t.fusion-content-boxes-1 .fusion-content-box-hover .link-area-link-icon-hover.link-area-box .fusion-read-more::before,\n\t\t\t\t\t.fusion-content-boxes-1 .fusion-content-box-hover .fusion-read-more:hover:after,\n\t\t\t\t\t.fusion-content-boxes-1 .fusion-content-box-hover .fusion-read-more:hover:before,\n\t\t\t\t\t.fusion-content-boxes-1 .fusion-content-box-hover .fusion-read-more:hover,\n\t\t\t\t\t.fusion-content-boxes-1 .fusion-content-box-hover .link-area-box-hover.link-area-box .fusion-read-more,\n\t\t\t\t\t.fusion-content-boxes-1 .fusion-content-box-hover .link-area-box-hover.link-area-box .fusion-read-more::after,\n\t\t\t\t\t.fusion-content-boxes-1 .fusion-content-box-hover .link-area-box-hover.link-area-box .fusion-read-more::before,\n\t\t\t\t\t.fusion-content-boxes-1 .fusion-content-box-hover .link-area-link-icon-hover .icon .circle-no,\n\t\t\t\t\t.fusion-content-boxes-1 .heading .heading-link:hover .content-box-heading {\n\t\t\t\t\t\tcolor: #a0ce4e;\n\t\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t\t.fusion-content-boxes-1 .fusion-content-box-hover .link-area-box-hover .icon .circle-no {\n\t\t\t\t\t\tcolor: #a0ce4e !important;\n\t\t\t\t\t}.fusion-content-boxes-1 .fusion-content-box-hover .link-area-box.link-area-box-hover .fusion-content-box-button {background: #f97000;color: #ffffff;}.fusion-content-boxes-1 .fusion-content-box-hover .link-area-box.link-area-box-hover .fusion-content-box-button .fusion-button-text {color: #ffffff;}\n\t\t\t\t\t.fusion-content-boxes-1 .fusion-content-box-hover .link-area-link-icon-hover .heading .icon > span {\n\t\t\t\t\t\tbackground-color: #a0ce4e !important;\n\t\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t\t.fusion-content-boxes-1 .fusion-content-box-hover .link-area-box-hover .heading .icon > span {\n\t\t\t\t\t\tborder-color: #a0ce4e !important;\n\t\t\t\t\t}<\/style><div class=\"fusion-column content-box-column content-box-column content-box-column-1 col-lg-12 col-md-12 col-sm-12 fusion-content-box-hover content-box-column-last content-box-column-last-in-row\"><div class=\"col content-box-wrapper content-wrapper link-area-link-icon icon-hover-animation-fade\" style=\"background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0);\" data-animationOffset=\"100%\"><div class=\"heading icon-left\"><h1 class=\"content-box-heading\" style=\"font-size:18px;line-height:23px;\">Marked<\/h1><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><div class=\"content-container\" style=\"color:#747474;\">\n<p>A dark fantasy meditation on shame, originally published in Sounds of the Night, 2009<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Another bad ending. And it just had to rain, didn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no better excuse to end a tedious phone call than Friday night in Vegas. Friday night blurs into Saturday morning, sometimes into Sunday: it&#8217;s like treading water to stay that one drink ahead of a hangover. Billy had a liver like a refrigerator, his boyish looks pickled at age thirty, now creeping towards forty.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing lasts forever.<\/p>\n<p>A hundred words. A thousand. Pictures spoken text and message. \u201cI miss you,\u201d Billy said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI still love you,\u201d she replied. And after so many years, so much distance.<\/p>\n<p>Was she still beautiful?<\/p>\n<p>She messaged a picture and yeah, she was still beautiful.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWould you like to come up to my room?\u201d the woman said. Eyes flashing in the lights and a boob-job so perfect, so understated, only her lovers knew for sure, she smiled from perpetually glossy lips\u2026gloss on her beer glass, her shot glass, her napkin and teeth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOkay,\u201d Billy grinned. \u201cAfter this song.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She called herself a tease. She called herself a witch too. She told him that much flat-out, but Billy met all kinds of funky tourists in Vegas lounges. He took none of them seriously, just hoped for an especially kinky session alone or with others. Maybe something that would surprise him again, the way things used to. A night to remember \u2013 a li\u2019l secret to keep before getting on with his life.<\/p>\n<p>Done. Just one more time and \u2013 done.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p>Done with hangovers. Done with tourists who faked it like porn stars. Done with greasing palms or dipping inside the purses of wealthy wives. Done with the free lunch and something \u2013 not quite guilt \u2013 but something black growing inside him.<\/p>\n<p>Too much Caipirinha. Disturbing house guests. Three in a tub. Three hours of daylight. Three items stolen from his home.<\/p>\n<p>Done. Just once more, and then Billy was done.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p>The fact that he\u2019d soon see the girl he\u2019d loved most of his life didn\u2019t so much plague Billy as it did energize him. A purely male attribute, and women hold a similar strength but in the opposite direction. Billy tipped the bartender he knew. He knew the waitress, and he knew the band. He said goodbye to them all, mostly to show off for one last time. The girl with her hand coaxing him at the small of his back his must\u2019ve been pushing forty herself. Still so goddamn head-to-toe attractive that only the weak or the fearful would resist. Red hair past her shoulders and a tight dress to her ankles, not the slightest trace of hesitance. The swirling-patterned carpet \u2019round the craps tables and slot machines played tricks on Billy\u2019s eyes though he\u2019d seen them a thousand times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStop for vodka,\u201d she said. \u201cFor the room.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Billy ducked in for vodka, cranberry juice, and limes available at all hours.<\/p>\n<p>Wendy, as she called herself, misbehaved in the elevator to the thirty-sixth floor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p>Love like a dis-ease. A contagion. Shame spreads likes boredom until extreme measures are taken to stop it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRemember the time we\u2014?\u201d Jessica said over the phone, laughter in her voice. Luxurious black hair, lips of innocence. They\u2019d gone ice-fishing, of all things, back in college. She told him her toes felt numb, and so he rubbed at his uncle\u2019s lodge. He kissed them, brought them back life like Lazarus would have done. Ten li\u2019l piggies, soft and but frozen at his lips.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou were the only one who caught anything,\u201d Billy said, remembering the day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, a cold!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never stopped thinking about you.\u201d And it was true. Even inside Wendy\u2019s room, inside Wendy\u2019s tub, and inside Wendy, it was true.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told you,\u201d she said, the lights of the Vegas Strip flashing from the window. \u201cI told you that they were real!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou must be proud,\u201d he replied, prodding like a scientist.<\/p>\n<p>She ignored his hands and stared. \u201cI also told you I\u2019m a witch, didn\u2019t I?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomething to that effect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWatch my eyes, Billy. No, look into them.\u201d She pushed held his face back to make him see. \u201cUnusual, wouldn\u2019t you say?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A moment before he arrived \u2013 and, yes.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, in fact they were.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p>Sagebrush and dusty arroyos gave way to oak forests and ice water creeks \u2013 Billy arrived to reacquaint himself with the love of his like in a some imaginary small town. People there saw right through him. Saw what he\u2019d been, the things he\u2019d done. Saw it in his eyes. With their children in hand, they\u2019d turn away. Jessica saw it too. Try as she might, she couldn\u2019t ignore the mark upon him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re not the same anymore,\u201d Jessica confessed in the rain outside her door. Water dripped from her hair into her eyes, but she would not blink. Unlike her friends, she would not look away. She stared straight into it, the mark left upon him. \u201cI thought I\u2019d still love you, Billy. I\u2019m sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p>At three in the morning in a room in Vegas, Wendy\u2019s eyes shook. Back and forth like some inner workings of wristwatch, and Billy would later remember hearing the rattle of snake. Transfixed, he saw everything in those eyes. The people he\u2019d used without a second thought. The ones he\u2019d hurt. All the women, and every fifty he\u2019d slipped a floor manager for a hot tip. Like a fast-forward movie \u2013 or a slideshow \u2013 his shame played in her quivering eyes. Filling his. Flashing from them still, for all the good people to see. He\u2019d once known how to read people. Now they read him.<\/p>\n<p>Billy had heard that witches leave the mark of the devil upon their victims. Wendy exposed his debt, and he couldn\u2019t hide anymore. His pain\u2026his anger and his sin: she drew back the mask and revealed it for all the good people to see. 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class=\"content-container\" style=\"color:#747474;\">\n<p>Fiction by Bryan Lindenberger<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-column content-box-column content-box-column content-box-column-2 col-lg-12 col-md-12 col-sm-12 fusion-content-box-hover content-box-column-last-in-row\"><div class=\"col content-box-wrapper content-wrapper link-area-link-icon link-type-text icon-hover-animation-fade\" style=\"background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0);\" data-animationOffset=\"100%\"><div class=\"heading heading-with-icon icon-left\"><a class=\"heading-link\" style=\"float:left;\" href=\"https:\/\/bryanberg.net\/files\/portfolio-fiction\/legends-13\/\" target=\"_self\"><div class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bryanberg.net\/files\/wp-content\/uploads\/fantasy150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" alt=\"Legends 13\" \/><\/div><\/a><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><a class=\"fusion-read-more\" style=\"float:left;\" href=\"https:\/\/bryanberg.net\/files\/portfolio-fiction\/legends-13\/\" target=\"_self\">Legends 13<\/a><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-column content-box-column content-box-column content-box-column-3 col-lg-12 col-md-12 col-sm-12 fusion-content-box-hover content-box-column-last-in-row\"><div class=\"col content-box-wrapper content-wrapper link-area-link-icon link-type-text icon-hover-animation-fade\" style=\"background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0);\" data-animationOffset=\"100%\"><div class=\"heading heading-with-icon icon-left\"><a class=\"heading-link\" style=\"float:left;\" href=\"https:\/\/bryanberg.net\/files\/portfolio-fiction\/magic-realism\/\" target=\"_self\"><div class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bryanberg.net\/files\/wp-content\/uploads\/contemporary.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" alt=\"Woman at mirror\" \/><\/div><\/a><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><a class=\"fusion-read-more\" 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