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The Death of Instinct

As the heart now labored under the curse of pain, to give birth to the truth, Instinct grew fear­ful of her beloved’s newly acquired abil­ity to fos­ter con­scious­ness. In an attempt to turn the head against her, he poi­soned the … Con­tinue read­ing

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Who Are You?

With your guns & drums ’n’ drums & guns, hur­roo, hur­roo,“ repeated my fac­ul­ties, over ’n’ over, in a barely audi­ble chant that quickly ground to a halt beside the dead man’s body. “With your guns & drums ’n’ drums … Con­tinue read­ing

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Are We All Eggmen?

A-​​​​a-​​​​ah!“ I screamed out in anguish. “What’ve I become?“ “A bro­ken egg!“ replied my shadow in jest. “Aw, shut up,“ I yelled out, in my anger over hav­ing received such a stu­pid response. “I ain’t no god­damn egg.“ “What you say is … Con­tinue read­ing

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The Sound of Sheer Silence

That night I dreamt I finally stum­bled on what I had been look­ing for, of late. Washed ashore along the coast of some islet in the south­ern Pacific, I aban­doned ship, lest she founder when the treach­er­ous tides, that’d marooned … Con­tinue read­ing

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The Force of Truth

Just then,“ inter­rupted my men­tor, “you recalled how dur­ing that one brief moment, last spring, while stand­ing alone in Lt. Smith’s state­room, you’d expe­ri­enced the incred­i­bly pow­er­ful force of truth, which you were unable to hold onto for very long, … Con­tinue read­ing

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The Urge to Use Brute Force

As you returned to that famil­iar set­ting, where dark­ness still over­shad­ows the truth,“ con­tin­ued my shadow, “you real­ized that your next oppo­nent would not come out of hid­ing, until you let down your guard, which took con­sid­er­able effort on your … Con­tinue read­ing

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The Extraordinary within the Ordinary

I do not know this witch you speak of,“ I inter­jected. “You know her all too well,“ replied my men­tor, “as the only mother to have donned one of the magician’s masks when she failed to con­jure up gen­uine love … Con­tinue read­ing

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Need for Others, Both Real and Imaginary

I used to get upset with my soul when she’d take off for parts unknown with­out me, for I’d invari­ably be dri­ven by my own sex­ual desires to seek her out within the very hole into which she had dis­ap­peared, … Con­tinue read­ing

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The Illuminating Light of a Black Hole

Hav­ing closed the door to my heart, had my soul, in the mean­time, slipped down to my gut like a sink­ing feel­ing, to turn me on to another way out, one in which she was no longer the object of … Con­tinue read­ing

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Outside the Belly of the Whale

After hav­ing been at sea for well over a month, I looked for­ward to get­ting off this bob­bing cork and step­ping onto solid ground again, no mat­ter if it was for­eign soil. For­tu­nate enough to have pulled two days of … Con­tinue read­ing

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