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    No Punchline; Or, the Night Chale Thayer Blew His Head Off at the Punch Drunk Comedy Club
    No Punchline; Or, the Night Chale Thayer Blew His Head Off at the Punch Drunk Comedy Club
    No Punchline; Or, the Night Chale Thayer Blew His Head Off at the Punch Drunk Comedy Club
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    No Punchline; Or, the Night Chale Thayer Blew His Head Off at the Punch Drunk Comedy Club

    By Jeff Suwak

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    Today, comedian Chale Thayer is going to kill himself onstage in front of all his fans. He has given up all hope that there is any greater purpose to life and is giving God, the universe, or whatever else might be out there one last chance to prove him wrong.

    He will tempt fate at the end of a gun barrel, and only time will tell who gets the last laugh.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJeff Suwak
    Release dateJan 18, 2015
    ISBN9781311262813
    No Punchline; Or, the Night Chale Thayer Blew His Head Off at the Punch Drunk Comedy Club
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    Jeff Suwak

    Jeff Suwak writes things. Sometimes those things turn out reasonably good. Twitter: @ghostelectrics

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      No Punchline; Or, the Night Chale Thayer Blew His Head Off at the Punch Drunk Comedy Club - Jeff Suwak

      No Punchline

      Or,

      The Night Chale Thayer Blew his Head off at the Punch Drunk Comedy Club

      by

      Jeff Suwak

      Copyright 2014 by Jeff Suwak

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      No Punchline

      Or,

      The Night Chale Thayer Blew his Head off at the Punch Drunk Comedy Club

      Chale Thayer sprawled out naked in bed with Darla’s head resting on his chest. Sunlight beamed through a missing slat in the Venetian blinds and cast a luminous shaft swarming with dust motes like tiny planets cut adrift in a bright, chaotic universe. He blew a stream of smoke into the light and watched it twist and curl in serpentine spirals and whorls, like storm clouds, then dissipate and rise, and disappear.

      Darla snatched the cigarette from Chale’s fingers and took a long, slow drag. She held the smoke up to her mouth and exhaled, watching the paper burn away around the cherry. I wish we met when I was younger, she said. I was really something when I was younger. I mean, I was really beautiful. I really was.

      Chale took the cigarette back. What are you talking about? You get more beautiful every time I see you, kid.

      She shook her head. No I don’t. I've been in the city too long. It’s like I’m stained or something. I should have gotten out of here while I could, but it’s too late now. No matter how hard I scrub, I'll never get this goddamn city out of my face.

      Chale stubbed the cigarette out in a flowered ceramic bowl on the nightstand. "It’s

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