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sugar cubes and needles

disease has no morality and antibodies are blind to whom they protect cellular insurance bought with a wince and a cry that small pain, forgotten in minutes buys a lifetime without braces and canes, free of the hiss of ventilators or rooms … Continue reading

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Shinwari

She squats, entombed already inside that burka, gray linen worn as the stones and soil beneath her flat sandals stares into the treeline, past it her end playing out away from that greenness and silent, meeting it but she is not … Continue reading

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