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____, “Still Life (A Sexagesimal Fairy Tale),” Apex Magazine, October. “Will you take it?”There was a long pause. I was not to be a target or a friend. On each cross, nailed there with thick railroad spikes through the bones of forearms and ankles, was a man.

Gone in a flash. ”“I’m not paranoid. ics, air conditioning? Deprived of television and music and books, how many had taken their own lives, un The evaporating lakes were filling.