“It’s not that I don’t feel some<\/i> attraction to you,” says Ostrom, a bit embarrassed.<\/p>\n
The supermodels stalk in circles around him, their movements stylized and fluid.<\/p>\n
“There’s just something… desperate about your biology,” he says. “A stunted evolutionary branch? You adapted into a shrinking niche, and as standards of beauty–like all media standards–started to decentralize, you just didn’t have the chance to hit reverse.”<\/p>\n
They slit their eyes.<\/p>\n
“And that’s the attraction,” sighs Ostrom. “The poetry, the tragedy of your obsolescence.”<\/p>\n
The supermodels give a keening cry and leap, rending him with their enlarged, sickle-shaped second toes.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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