How to Fail: The Self Hurt Guide

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HOW TO FAIL: THE SELF-HURT GUIDE !"#$%&'"()"**+,-".,/01*+2

!Attention mom, The Pope, rabbis, priests, and future would-be employers everywhere: nasty word warning! How to Fail is lurid and HILARIOUS." - THE HEDONIST JIVE

!How To Fail is at once a foray into the depths of spiritual bankruptcy and the foremost authority on boner genres." - TIM CALPIN, screenwriter, Assassination of a High School President

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SARAH I’ve wanted this for so long.

JAMES You don’t know the half of it. Or the full of it for that matter.

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SARAH I love your skin. hairless.

So smooth and

JAMES Hairlessness is all the rage now, isn’t it? Heh heh.

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SARAH Other men don’t care about my needs. About getting their gross hair all over me.

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JAMES

I think I love you for that.

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JAMES Slow down.

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JAMES Slow down!

Her eyes bulge.

Where is his bulge?

SARAH Where...where...where is it?

JAMES That’s what I’ve been trying to tell you since our first date.

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SARAH I loved that date. I’ve never dirty danced so close before. You didn’t even get a boner.

JAMES That’s the thing. “the thing.”

Or rather, I lack

SARAH Huh?

JAMES I’m a eunuch. Sarah looks down at James’s groin then back up to his eyes. She smiles.

SARAH Frankly my dear, I don’t give a shit.

They kiss.

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