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by Harlan Ellison 3 Author's Note This is a work of fiction. It is
intended, however, to convey a reasonably accurate impression of a segment of
contemporary life as it existed during the period 1950-1960; a segment of
show business based on the reality of the time. To convey a feeling of
verisimilitude, I have employed the names of real persons, places,
organizations, and events. Any such use, however, is intended strictly for
story-value, and it should be understood that any part they play in this
fiction is a product of literary license employing figures whose public
images are clearly in the public domain, and in no way implies any actual
participation in reality. Of the fictional characters, woven from the whole
cloth of the imagination, there may be those who seem to have counterparts in
real life. Anyone attempting to .rip aside the masks. to discern the .real.
people underneath, should be advised theyтАЩre wasting their time. Stag
Preston and all the others are composites, a chunk from here, a hand movement
from there, a mannerism from somewhere else. He is many people and he is no
one: he is a symbol, if you have to have labels. I have tried to tag a type.
Types have no names. Or, to quote from Mark Twain: .Persons attempting to
find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted: persons attempting to
find a moral in it will be banished: persons attempting to find a plot in it
will be shot.. It is a fable; who can be offended by a fable? Harlan Ellison
Spider Kiss by Harlan Ellison 4 For the fifth time around, This one is
dedicated to the Lady who knew it ain't as easy as it looks. For my ex-wife
BILLIE, with affection and respect. Spider Kiss by Harlan Ellison 5 One
First there was only the empty golden circle of the hot spot, blazing
against the silk curtains. That, and in another vein, the animal murmuring of
the audience, mostly teen-age girls with tight sweaters and mouths
open-crammed by gum. For what seemed the longest time that was the portrait:
cut from primordial materials in an expectant arena. There was a tension so
intense it could be felt as warmth on the neck, uncontrollable twitches in
the lips and eyes, the nervous shifting of small hands from nowhere to
nowhere. The curtains gave a vagrant rustle and from three parts of the
orchestra and four parts of the balcony came piercing, wind-up-a-chimney
shrieks of pleasure and torment. Behind the velvet ropes, overflow crowds
pressed body on body to get a neck-straining view of the stage. Just those
purple and yellow draperies, the golden coin of the spotlight beam. The
scene was laid with a simple, but forceful, altogether impressive sense of
dramatics. In the pit, the orchestra began warming its sounds, and the