Word: abattoirs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even if she sizzles to a new speed record and is enshrined in Heinold's hog hall of fame, poor Huck's fate is already sealed. After a brief breeding reprieve -- to produce not racers but simply high-quality piglets -- she gets a one-way ticket to the abattoir, along with all this year's other stars. Says Holding, who plans to retire from the racing game this year: "There's not a lot of sentiment in this business...
...title story, for example, a G.I. in Saigon undresses a shy local whore only to find that her back has been grotesquely scarred by napalm; in another, a sexual innocent is initiated by a beefy drab with blue-veined thighs and blood on her fingers from the abattoir, where she sorts out tubs of "shivering, gelid, brown and purple guts...
...novelist, Bulwer-Lytton wrote a book, Paul Clifford, that unfortunately began, "It was a dark and stormy night. . ." Among the exquisitely bad sentences sent to the California (zip code: 95192) judges: "Screaming like a banshee, bargaining like a waterfront drug dealer, bleeding like a side of beef in an abattoir, the Chinese sailor croaked out one word: 'Firelight' (a code word? or a dying man's resurrection of a beloved childhood memory?) and fell to the ground, sprawled out like an epileptic lobster, clutching in his fist loosened by the merciful kiss of death fire of another...