title: Perfect Break
author:  Ana&iuml;s Chartschenko 
description: Anas Chartschenko hails from the Canadian wilderness. She has come to enjoy such modern things as electric tea kettles. Her published works include: Bright Needles The Whisper Collector The Weightless One
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  **BREAK-AWAY**
  
  _(Proliferation, Part I)_
  
  _By Ilsa J. Bick_
  
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  _“Naw, naw, we got that beat. Battle of Tybalt, Amanda and me_ _did this
  break-away thing. Snuggled up real close. Meter, maybe. But, see, when you get
  painted, you look like one guy on GCI,_ _right? So we’re going speed of heat,
  and then just outside visual,_ _Amanda slid out and did this roll, pulled real
  hard into a split-S,_ _ninety degrees, and she’s booming, peeling angels, and
  I’m playing the music so the Capellans lose the bubble. Then when I yell_
  
  _‘Go’ she does this righteous bat turn. Thing of beauty: One-eighty_ _roll,
  wings-level pull-out, hooking into their bellies, and then I’m_ _loading
  angels, and the Capellans are loading angels, and they’re_ _so busy looking up
  at me, they never see her coming from below_ _until she rips them a new
  asshole. Wingman vaporized and 