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    The End of Cleo
    The End of Cleo
    The End of Cleo
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    The End of Cleo

    By Kaysoon Khoo

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    A hilarious dialogue takes place between Cleopatra, the Serpent of the Nile and her handmaiden Charmion, just before the Egyptian queen makes her exit from this world in her own highly original way. Marilyn isn't around to show Cleo how to do it with Nembutals, more's the pity. Slitting the wrist is simply too messy, hanging too undignified, seppuku too Japanese, drowning too watery, jumping off a pyramid too risky (what if you don't die on the spot!), and poison too uncertain.

    So Cleo opts for the time-honoured tradition of applying an asp to the bosom. By the way, this mode of suicide is only meant for women, eunuchs, and Egyptian drag-queens. The straight dudes either fall on their swords or jump into a pool of crocodiles. There's a high price to pay if you're both macho and suicidal at one and the same time in Egypt.

    Picture it! The Queen of Upper and Lower Egypt is in her throne-room, dolled up in full state regalia, an inch of makeup on her face, her whole being bedecked with a girl's best friend and other precious stones. Charmion approaches her with a basketful of figs. The mound of figs moves. There is something concealed underneath it – something that lives – and is ready, willing and able to deliver the kiss of death ...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKaysoon Khoo
    Release dateJun 7, 2014
    ISBN9781311614896
    The End of Cleo
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    Kaysoon Khoo

    All the world's a comedy stage and each must play a clown. We're none of us totally sane. Actually, there's NO such thing as total sanity. You can't even define it. So laugh while you can. It doesn't cost a bleeding cent and you get your emotional rocks off. Who knows what tomorrow may bring? Circumstance doesn't always turn out the way you want it to and chance is a bitch, more often than not. Having said this much, I don't have to explain why I write the way I do. I'd like to think that what I churn out is stuff you'll either love or loath. No halfway house, please. My life has always vacillated between extremes. And if we ever meet, give me a warm handshake -- or give me sufficient warning that you're going for my throat. I'll be publishing more madness on Smashwords as often as I can. And I'll be churning out and uploading more and more until that glorious day when they come to take me away.

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      The End of Cleo - Kaysoon Khoo

      THE END OF CLEO

      by

      KAYSOON KHOO

      Copyright 2014 Kaysoon Khoo

      A Smashwords Edition

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      This book is purely a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or to any places or events, is purely coincidental.

      THE END OF CLEO

      Here's my own ghastly rendition of the death scene of Cleopatra VIII, female Pharaoh, Serpent of the Nile, wife of Julius Caesar, mistress of Mark Antony, femme fatale and royal slut extraordinaire. Never mind if my account's not historically correct. History is never half as entertaining as showbiz.

      The following dialogue took place between Cleo and her handmaiden Charmion, just before the Egyptian queen made her exit from the world in her own highly original way. Marilyn wasn't around to show Cleo how to do it with Nembutals, more's the pity. Slitting the wrist was simply too messy, hanging too undignified, seppuku too Japanese, drowning too watery, jumping off a

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