Perpendicular rivers cut gorges across a windless white desert, pitted by an epoch of mustang hooves, the herd lean and leaderless, [...]
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Fog by John Stocks
She talked often about the fog The ‘Pea Souper’, ‘London Particular’, That smothered all the London Streets With corrosive fog, a ghastly miasma. How granddad had shuddered to his knees, His lungs corrupted, wheezing his last breath, How fourteen tons of Flouride did for him; Some said twelve thousand were killed that week. She claimed [...]
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The Czech Republic by Laura Janka
The boy woke in the morning, and at the top of the kitchen’s garbage bin, with pieces of chewed meat and skinned potato chunks for pillows, were the teeth from his father’s mouth. There were three of them, and the roots where they had been planted into pink, swollen gums were deep red. Laying [...]
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The Last Tenants by Sarah Archer
Their evenings mapped in markings on the floor: her love seat faced the dinner-hour news with breadth to flank her knitting arm to arm, his favorite chair, a table for his smoke. An orphan ring left on the shower rod, its open hands unclasped; on their soap groove, a film that will not wash. Down-hall, [...]
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Budding by Sarah Archer
I can’t guess what planted this impression somewhere along my trachea, halfway between the brain and the heart, which I am waiting to name. It barely prickles in the pink of my flesh, this crouching unborn body, this seed. Huddling, mute, its hilum nourishing, it keeps its color closeted, but soon will nudge the [...]
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