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Dusk

by Marcia Southwick
Issue #18
Fall 1979
I cannot worry about what lies beneath the surface, so I walk into the fragile dusk, breaking the backs of field mice still asleep under the snow. The sunlight that does not reach me illuminates the distance between this world...

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