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Issue 12 – Fiction

Issue 12 – Fiction

The Cleaner

I directed Mrs. Powell to sit and make herself comfortable. She lowered herself into the chair at the round table in the lobby of my office slowly, her frail, ninety-year-old frame eventually settling into it.

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The Cure for Immortality

As I record this, time is slipping away—also ironic. I’ve lived for centuries, and time has never been on my side.

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The Storyteller

There are two facets to this story. One is simple and the other not so. When you are caught in a current that is stronger than you, you swim with it and give yourself a chance at survival.  This is simple. Or you struggle against it and either drown or create a story. This is not so simple.

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