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April 1865: Message from Clover Hill

In a grave for the living, rationing my breath I guard comrades fighting within themselves to stay in the tiny sliver of death we call sleep. In wartime, sleeping is close to, yet as far from living as it’s possible to be. April’s sun lazes over the horizon, it’s anaemic light revealing life midst the […]

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Weapon of Mass Imagination (Oh Seigfried).

I’m going to build a weapon supreme to let loose upon the world. A bomb filled with crayons and plasticine the most wondrous weapon on earth. . Each time a crisis develops I’ll launch it high in the air where it will explode with a gentle, ‘pwff’ then millions of parachutes appear… . And they […]