“KISSABLE PICTURES”: OOH OOH, THEY’RE OBSESSED WITH YOU. In which John is disturbed and disturbing, and our music journalist attends a concert.

More workaday prose here, sorry, and a few placeholders that I will change in the final version. But there are a couple things in this segment that I like. There are two or maybe three sections left after this one.

The usual warning: This story has sex in it. (Not, as such, in this section.) It has creepiness in it (this section and passim). This story is not healthy for children or other living things.

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