Oyster/I-84 Messiah, Lullaby, Chuck Palahniuk
The man was young, blond, with his long blond hair whipping in the wind from cars blasting past them. He had a red goatee and scars cut sideways across both cheeks, just under his eyes. The scars were dark red, and the young man reached into the garbage bag with the dead dog and told the crew—it wasn’t dead…In the snapshots people take, in the videos, it’s always the flying blond hair, the red goatee, the scars. It’s always the same man…The details about Oyster are his hair, it looks shattered, the way a pine tree looks struck by lightning, splintered blond and standing up in every direction…His eyes are white. It’s not the white of white flags, surrender. It’s the white of hardboiled eggs, crippled chickens in battery cages, factory farm misery and suffering and death. (Suggested by douglard)
This morning Chuck Palaniuk launched a Kickstarter to fund an indie production of his novel Lullaby. From the archives, here’s Oyster, with possibly my favorite hair on the Composites.
