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And Isaac added, “Dude, the punkers have a mosh pit but now we can give your Uncles rock band a breakers pit
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My uncle laughed and said, “I’ve had some wild rockers start a mosh pit before at my concerts but I’ve never had a bunch of breakers doing their thing and getting all excited like that before
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the corner of the house, he turned and saw Mosh tracking it with the shotgun,
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Mosh also said nothing of that
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Mosh was waiting in the Toyota bakkie, the back piled with boxed fruit and vegetables
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Mosh drove slouched back, elbow to the wind, and he was a lunatic at the wheel
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Mosh stepped back from Stein’s door as it closed, and gave what must be that
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Mosh waited in the shelter of the thatched stoep of an unused unit, watching over
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So they loitered awhile longer, circling the building so Ariel could look for Mosh, but
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I wonder where Mosh is
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She’d spotted Mosh on the stone path leading down to
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Then Mosh spoke of his plans for the day when the land would pass on to him, the
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‘Where is she, Bob?’ Mosh, from the dark
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Mosh knelt and gently rolled
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things back, Mosh behind, so soon the cave was a furnace of feral hormones
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‘Leave her,’ said Mosh
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Mosh dithered at the door, watching with his cat’s eyes
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Mosh could hear
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’ Mosh staggered to the sofa
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Mosh thumbed his lips and craned his head sideways to lock onto the screen, all
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glasses, handing Mosh the only beer glass
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The younger, a dirty chestnut, lifted its chin in welcome to Mosh
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Mosh sighed and ambled on his way
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drum out a sound-bite of the Master while Mosh scraped away his patch of sand
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beat, but Mosh kept on, digging in the rhythm, deeper into the earth
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watching Mosh arranging the cane rat behind a stand of thatch grass down near the
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Mosh tugged the string, and the rat rustled against the grass
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The string jerked as Mosh grabbed it, the rat sloshed against the bullet-
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charging up the lawn, faster than Mosh could reel the string in
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She registered the clangs and scrapes of Mosh at the
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Mosh waited at a distance
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He remembered when Mosh was but a little baby, a bundle of primal
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Mosh frowned and straightened his back, shaking off his father’s hand
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‘Maybe we should have a, like a party,’ said Mosh
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Mosh reached over, pulled her to him and kissed her cheek
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It’s Mosh who’s out of his league
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Mosh caught her eye, and
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Not as well educated as Mosh, though
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you, Mosh < sh <’ he staggered, grasped his forehead, and held a shaking hand up to
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‘And sex,’ said Mosh
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gave an approving nod as Mosh pivoted and swung an uppercut hard and fast into the
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wide as Mosh bent and hoisted and dragged the man away
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Live with Mosh and < just live
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But she had stopped listening, as Mosh loped, loose-limbed and dangerous, his eyes
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‘No, she’s escaped, Mosh
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’ Mosh toppled off into a trot down the hill
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Mosh broke into a sprint
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dark windows above Mosh, her head held high and chest heaving
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Mosh heard the death-squeal, and so did Ariel
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glorious moment, and Mosh took her there, quickly
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Mosh came, knocked softly, and left
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The door swept open to reveal Mosh, mouth and eyes ludicrous O’s above his soaked
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Mosh stepped stiff-legged away from the bakkie, his maroon uniform fading to pink
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I … where am I there’s Mosh … and Kay and Churchill what is that?
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Mosh, in his uniform, yawning at the door
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Mosh shook his head with a frightened glance at Ariel
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As Mosh peeled out the neatly-folded jeans, his eyes fell to a case on the floor
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‘So why can’t you just hunt it yourself?’ Mosh was perched on the sofa, huddled
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But Skeet was wary, with sharp eyes on Mosh, on his untied hands
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Mosh rocked back and forth
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Mosh took it carefully and he stepped back
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The living-room window was elevated out of reach, so Mosh had to creep up the
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Mosh turned and ran for the gate
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Then he waited, the GPS monitor in one hand, knife in the other, until Mosh had
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Mosh sweat-bright in the moonlight, to the glint of a firestick–
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Mosh felt sick, the simple, pure message in those cat eyes a jolt of shame
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Mosh shot … he shot her, he shot her she runs while she dies my child … I …
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look at Mosh, your dearly beloved
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Mosh, oh, you stupid boy
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The knife tore into his chest once, twice, and Mosh stared in mute despair and then
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Mosh took in a deep, shuddering breath, coughed, and raised his hand to his chest
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Mosh was bandaged around his chest, but naked to his narrow waist
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It had come from somewhere in the mosh pit in front of the stage
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DESPITE EVERYTHING YUKI HAD told me about the media frenzy, I was stunned to see the square block of mosh pit at the Civic Center Plaza the next morning
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I get the second, and then we’re at the center of a wet, hot mosh pit of pressed bodies; then the whole hot circle hops up and down and emits a chant
