Status Updates From Uncanny Magazine Issue 63: ...

"When heavenly kingdoms fall, the land they rest upon must shatter."

"If we must make a life of this island, then let us also make its first ghosts."

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"you cannot protect your family with dreams.
you cannot protect yourself with dreams
when reality is ready with shackles
when you realize the time you have lost."

"you dream with one eye open
in fear that they might be stolen
by your mother and sold
in the market because she said
dreams are worthless,
they cannot fill bellies,
only empty ambitions
that leave fields dry, untended."