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The Fortress at the End of Time
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2017
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Never Knew Another (Dogsland, #1)
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2011
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11 editions
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Last Dragon
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2008
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9 editions
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When We Were Executioners (Dogsland, #2)
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2012
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We Leave Together (Dogsland #3)
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2014
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Maze
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2014
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Straggletaggle
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2014
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Disintegration Visions
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2012
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Women and Monsters
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2011
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Death Mask and Eulogy
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2011
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Sonnet #397
I’m supposed to be working but I’m not
I’m waiting for the next work, the jobs
Of life continue, until the closing bell robs
Time’s trailer of time’s cargo, but I’m not
Racing out the door to work, I’m holding still
The echo of the money is in my back
And in that sound my left knee makes, the cracks
Of bones that aren’t intended means I will
Probably eat tomorrow. Tonight, I wait
Let moon rise and rain f
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“I learned that every tree fights for sunlight in the canopy, but this happens so slowly that the combat looks like peace.”
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“Do you know anything about hearts, Jona? The Senta know hearts. Hearts are not one organ. Inside a mother's womb, two pulsing bags of blood seek their eternal mate."
Her hand reached out to his. She opened his palm, and traced a finger down his lifeline, then his loveline. She lifted it up to her own face. She placed it on her cheek.
"Lungs are fine apart," she said, "Hands do not need another but to clap. Brains gnarl like roots in the nothing of soul, and guts spin in knots around the nothing of hunger. But hearts are made by two complete parts merging together. Once the two pieces sense each other in the blood flow, they cross every bloody cliff inside of us. The arteries bind the halves close. The veins make love to each other in the life pulse that makes all life from love entwined.”
― When We Were Executioners
Her hand reached out to his. She opened his palm, and traced a finger down his lifeline, then his loveline. She lifted it up to her own face. She placed it on her cheek.
"Lungs are fine apart," she said, "Hands do not need another but to clap. Brains gnarl like roots in the nothing of soul, and guts spin in knots around the nothing of hunger. But hearts are made by two complete parts merging together. Once the two pieces sense each other in the blood flow, they cross every bloody cliff inside of us. The arteries bind the halves close. The veins make love to each other in the life pulse that makes all life from love entwined.”
― When We Were Executioners
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