PodCastle 172: Doors
by Rajan Khanna
Read by David O. Engelstad
Originally published in GUD (Greatest Uncommon Denominator).
You will never find this world in a book. It is spelled out on the walls of bathrooms, in janitor’s closets and bomb shelters, in the scrawl on an alley wall. But only if you know where to look. There are maybe a hundred people across the world who do.
From the moment you find your first tag, you become a collector. Some people collect figurines or stamps or comic books, you collect locations. You’re a gambling addict in a million dollar game, a pothead with a giant brick of BC’s Finest, a sexaholic at a gang bang.
I used to be into sex. Like really kinky shit. You could tie me up and beat me with a riding crop and I’d be as happy as a pig in shit. Because in those moments, when someone was treating me like an object, I could switch off from bills and mortgages and loans and fucking laundry. Push it to one side and let the pain wash it away.
Fuck S&M, Traveling is better. Fuck meditation, Traveling is better. God help me, fuck sex.
Traveling is better.
Rated R: Contains explicit language.
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