Mouths in Accelerando

Chapter 1 

1 " Manfred swallows a mouthful of beer 

2 Manfred bites his tongue to stifle his first response, then refills his coffee cup and takes another mouthful 

3 He twitches. Mouth gagged, fingers glued. Good. No back channels. 

4 six million that isn't going into your virtual children's mouths. 

Chapter 2 

1 like Australian with a plum in its mouth. 

2 His mouth feels like the inside of a tomb, and his eyes don't want to open. 

3 he finds that his mouth tastes like a dead trout, 

4 Glashwiecz sits down uncomfortably close to Manfred and murmurs out of one side of his mouth. 

5 He points at Pam, whose mouth opens in silent protest. 

6 He takes another mouthful of coffee. 

Chapter 3 

1 Annette has to make an effort to listen to his words because the shape of his mouth is all wrong, like a badly   dubbed video. 

2 but the mouth produces no saliva, 

3 What comes out of his mouth sounds a bit more like, Am Max: Yiv hurdfrae ma system. 

4 baring a pink, ribbed mouth and a tongue like pink suede. 

5 swallowing with a suddenly dry mouth,  

Chapter 4 

1 "You have a foul mouth in your head, child. 

2 If you spot your heart rate going up or your mouth going dry, take five. 

Chapter 5 

1 the constriction holding her spine straight, the taste in her mouth. 

2 She opens her mouth: 

3 Boris winces momentarily as the nematocysts let rip inside his mouth, 

4 From time to time, it raises the glass as if to take a mouthful, and the beer vanishes into the singular interior. 

5 Pierre takes a big mouthful of sangria. 

6" He rolls the words around the inside of his mouth, tasting them. 

7 Its mouthparts move ceaselessly  

8 There's a stench of shit, and blood is squirting from its mouthparts. 

9 Its mouth opens and a strange gobbling hiss comes forth. 

10 Heart in his mouth: "I'm with you." 

Chapter 6 

-no- 

Chapter 7 

1 "Hah!" Pierre chuckles grimly, then drains the last drops from the bottle into his mouth. 

2 she doesn't generally open her mouth without a good reason. 

3 Boris lurches forward with something in his mouth, 

4 Sirhan covers his confusion by spooning chunks of melon into his mouth, 

5 His tongue sticks to the roof of his mouth. 

6 "For fuck's sake!" It's the first thing Pierre has said so far, and crude or not, it comes as a profound relief when he steps forward, picks up a plate of water biscuits loaded with salmon caviar, and puts one in his mouth.

7 I got the whole story about your passenger from the horse's mouth. 
 
Chapter 8 

1 He stops in midsentence, his mouth open, staring dumbly. 

2 Which is why, when the door bangs open, his first response is to whirl angrily and open his mouth - then stop.

3 "She's what?" he asks again, his mouth dry. 

4 Manfred takes a mouthful of beer  
 
Chapter 9 

1 Manni would be screaming at her right now, if he had a mouth 

2 He can see again, and move, and feel his mouth. 

3 "What is this?" he asks, his mouth dry. 

4 And because he's still basically a little kid, and not fully in control of his own metaprogramming, instead of adjusting his outlook so that he isn't bored anymore, he sneaks out through his bedroom gate (which big-Manni-ghost reprogrammed for him sometime ago so that it would forward to an underused public A-gate that he'd run a man-in-the-middle hack on, so he could use it as a proxy teleport server) then down to the underside of Red Plaza, where skinless things gibber and howl at their tormentors, broken angels are crucified on the pillars that hold up the sky, and gangs of semiferal children act out their psychotic fantasies on mouthless android replicas of parents and authorities.

5 Pamela opens her mouth, ready to speak, 

6 She looks right back and - a shock goes through him - nods and closes her mouth.

7 if you leave your mouth open like that, a bird will nest on your tongue.