By Joshua Ryan
Chapter 12: This Season, Brown Is Trending
They let me loose and I fell back, panting. Automatically, my hands went up to my neck. But it wasn’t my neck anymore; it was a thing wearing a collar. “Yeh mon,” Malcolm said, “you a slappie now.” I twisted, holding my stomach, trying to get my breath. My eyes were level with their waists, and I saw that their shorts were tented.
“OK slappie, straighten up,” Jojo said, kicking a chair in my direction. “Sit on it,” Malcolm said. My balls slumped down on the wooden seat. “Keep still,” Jojo said. “This doan take long.” He plugged a shaver into the wall, and in two minutes he had shaved me bald.
“Get up,” Malcolm ordered. “See that wall? Stan’ there. This is a camera, slap boy. Hol’ still, gonna take you picture. I said hol’ still. An look pretty—this is you audition, dude. I mean it—how you think I get this great job? You keep lookin unhappy, dude, this gonna last all night. OK, that’s better. Now turn left. Turn right. Lemme see you butt.” So now my white naked body and my white bald head were fully recorded. “Through that door,” he told me, pointing.