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The Kraken
A TV studio interview. “I was suspended outside the thirtieth floor, washing a window. A blimp floated past and the sky became brighter. That’s when I saw the kraken rip the clouds open,” Hearth says. Sitting across from Hearth is a Journalist who sets down his notepad. “I’m sorry, did you say kraken? What did […]
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Bobbing for Kelp
If I have a pinky figure, do I also have a greeny? Collegiate marshmallows stack up war, rain buffets hard-hatted heads crossing to the laundromat amidst an avalanche of stairs. Picture this, a snapshot of pastures filledup with the currency of goats, agrouping of golden tokens in floral shadesince goats like to trade their possessionsfor […]
all i see is a threshold, grey and uninterrupted. it’s a miracle we weren’t destroyed by the revenants of the school we once shared. it can’t be midnight, it’s too bright, blurred. i swagger down halls with a knife in my veins trying to reinvent cassette tapesfor a new generation of suicidal wind-swept teens. the sweet embrace of death is cliché for […]
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