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Linnea has a voice, too, but she doesn't use it much. The inside of her head is a safe place, full of futures that will never happen so long as she keeps her words under lock and key. You open doors when you say things. There's no telling what will come out of them, or where they may carry you off to in their jaws.
— Feb 01, 2023 03:28PM
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"Once upon a time," Auntie Ben says seated beside Linnea's bed, "there was a cage. But that cage is rusted all to hellfire and back now, and the men who build it are bones in the dust so dry not even a dark-flanked yearling would stop to take a sniff. Nobody remembers a damn thing about those men. Nobody remembers their chickens, their guns, or their stupid cage with the concrete floor.
— Feb 01, 2023 03:24PM
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Pretend you are the sky. Pretend you are a sky the faint peach and dusty slate of a dove's wing, folded protectively over darkening fields of corn and cities where yellow lights wink on like punctilious fireflies.
— Feb 01, 2023 03:20PM
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And so: delicate little dabs along the lean, dusky line of her jaw, up the cheekbones sharp as taxidermy knives, all the way to her forehead, where hair the color of dirty sand dangles listless, fabric on barbed wire.
— Feb 01, 2023 03:15PM
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Pretend you are the land. Pretend you are a place far away, the last vibrant V of green and gold and tessellated rock before the sea and sky slither south unchecked for three thousand lonesome turns of a tern's wing.
— Feb 01, 2023 03:12PM
