2023
Pieces from 2023.
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The Promise
There was a chasm. It looked unassuming from the surface. It was round and very large. The village’s strongest swimmer took longer to cross it than the divers could hold their breath, though such a test was seldom done, for it was inauspicious for the living to enter its waters. That maw of deep, twilight Continue reading
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Phantasms on the Shore
The child watched them, wide-eyed, saying nothing. Just as Sirris had said, they began to rise from the lake: translucent, amorphous creatures, as if life had been granted to the mist which gathered upon its surface on gray mornings. One by one, they drifted into the night sky, carried forth by some unseen, ordered wind Continue reading
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A Letter to Fritz
How long have I waited out here in the cold? How much longer must I endure the unseeing stares of my countrymen; the sneering of the Verisiennes? I am invisible and hated—a bum begging for change and an enemy who has received his due abasement. Do they not know that I want to vanish? Do Continue reading