The woman with the switchblade stepped from the shadows.  "Gimme your wallets or- urrrgh..."
Jason tucked the spray bottle away and stepped over the snoring body that blocked the alley exit.  
"What was that?" I asked.
In answer, Jason pulled open his coat.  A small plastic bag was attached to his side, a cannula poking through his shirt.
"You sprayed... a colostomy bag?"
"No."  Jason dropped his coat.  "Concentrated sleep drainage.  I don't need it anymore."
"I thought you went crazy if you got no sleep?"
He shrugged.  "I supplement it in my diet.  Cicadas, sloths, that sort of thing."
DP FICTION #129A: “When Eve Chose Us” by Tia Tashiro
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