Concrete Underground - Moxie Mezcal (elon musk reading list txt) 📗

in the open night air. I took deep breaths, filling my lungs like a drowning man who miraculously resurfaces.

There was a long black car parked out in front of the theater with its engine running. When I was halfway down the path to the sidewalk, the passenger side door popped open. I stopped in my tracks, not sure what to do. A few seconds later, I heard a scream come from inside the theater and figured my mind was made up for me.

I bounded the last of the way to the car and hopped in. The actress who played Violet was in the driver seat, still wearing her half-mask and purple wig from the play.

"Where to?" she asked.

I sank into the seat and looked down at my blood-drenched clothes and said, "Anywhere that isn't here."

She stepped on the gas and peeled away.

"Are you sure?" asked a voice behind me, drifting up front from the back seat. "You can leave a place, you can leave a situation. You can quit a job, move to a different house, forget a thing that has happened, or even give up on a love. But the one thing you can never walk away from is yourself."

I wasn't sure what that meant, so rather than think about it too much, I just reached out and turned on the stereo.

The music was slow and atmospheric with a woman crooning longingly:

Sometimes when I tell the story of you,

I make you out to be the bad guy.

about the author

Moxie Mezcal lives under an assumed name in San Jose, California.

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Nine clues to solve the mystery of

CONCRETE UNDERGROUND

What happens to Violet's sculpture. What is the significance of this?

D successfully completed the job for which Max selected him. What was it?

Note the appearances of colored metals.

Do you believe that Max really did not recognize Violet?

Note the appearances of doors and keys.

Note the relationship between D, Jenny, and Nick at the end of the novel. This is the ideal situation for D.

Who does D meet in the bookstore?

Who gives the warning to stop before D enters Room 33? Who is being warned?

Who built the labyrinth?

GUERRILLA FICTION MANIFESTO

Guerrilla fiction is defined by independent, artist-driven production and distribution of literary works.

Guerrilla fiction is based on the belief that the traditional model of book publishing only benefits one person - some guy in New York making money off other people's creativity - at the expense of both artist and audience.

Guerrilla fiction is possible because the tools for creating and sharing art are widely available to anyone with access to a computer and an internet connection.

Guerrilla fiction favors the electronic distribution of literature as an environmentally-responsible alternative to traditional publishers' slavish devotion to paper.

Guerrilla fiction favors cheap, zine-style photocopies over more wasteful formats favored by traditional publishers. Guerrilla fiction believes that neither the artist nor the audience is served well when works are released only as expensive hardcovers.

Guerrilla fiction favors the promotion of art through direct connection between the artist and audience - using web sites, social networks, community involvement, word of mouth, and face-to-face human interaction.

Guerrilla fiction makes the distribution of art an extension of the interpersonal relationship between the artist and the audience, rather than the commercial relationship between the publisher and the consumer.

Guerrilla fiction believes that getting art to the audience is more important than getting money to the artist.

Guerrilla fiction keeps all rights in the hands of the artist.

Guerrilla fiction does not need to be sanctioned or validated.