“Breakfast of champions, Ellie.”This is Flambeaux "Flame" Phyre, the flaming sword swallower, and Liz Lizard with the split tongue and tattooed gums. Two old timers, carnie types, riding the Freak Train. Flame & Liz are working on a new act where Liz throws flaming daggers into Flame's mouth and he swallows and regurgitates them - still aflame - in rapid succession.
“Sure thing.”
I hand over two large black coffees and a pack of smokes.
"How's Monkeyboy doing, Liz?"
Monkeyboy is Liz's son (real name: Edward) - a resident at John Hopkins with his eyes on the Nobel Prize for neurology research. Monkeyboy was actually born with a human tail. When he got a little older, he became part of Flame and Liz's sideshow act. For $5 people actually got to touch Monkeyboy on the tail and make a wish...
"He's good, Ellie. Saving lives one amygdala at a time."
And down the pine slats they go to throw flaming knives at each other, the way soulmates sometimes do.
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