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Tag: Fiction
Pontengisme
Trackless
Equinimity
Autobiography of a Book – 3 Chapters as Told to Glenn Ingersoll
Florbela Through the Looking Glass
Unmeasured Ages
Between two dumpsters in his little cell, he crouched. Shrugged and coughed. The hiatus of night wore off. Unnuzzled into ache. More swarf belched up, nettled in his gorge. He’d been enwombed into this blood-drunk blightedness. Day again—he felt things begin to swivel down a drainhole. Cloudy brainlumps stalled and massed above him. Below, a pigeon hobbled. A backfire sponked. The pigeon flitted away. Soot-motes glinted down a crevice. Nitted feathers traced the eye’s deception, dove-gray to bottlegreen, as it flew beyond the circle of his sight.
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Zodiac Stanzas in a Forest Volcano
How the World Lost the Sea
And the moon called out to the sea to join him in the night, so they may dance among the stars.
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Unknown
Running the Gullet
In the last days before the old red unruly sun swallows the earth, Irugal sits on a flat rock by the river and teaches the children a game.
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The Collidescope 