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HOOK ECHOES by Kevin Heaton
Sunshowers spit-shined the shark’s tooth that gutted Kansas’ only diamondback. You were just a puff adder feigning rattles— scavenging rat droppings with field mice in bales of switchgrass. I want tallgrass. I want a thunder god with flashes of ego—
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THE DANGERS OF TIME TRAVEL by Gerardo Mena
You wake up in the future and realize that everyone has evolved. People now have the head of a blue jay and the body of a shiny machine that whirs softly as its insides spin. You see two bird heads that look like your parents, but, of course, that is not possible.
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MOLES by Matthew Haughton
Something had to be done about the moles; labyrinths stretched from the garden down to the hollow. Give moles an inch and they’ll burrow up to your door. So we dug holes in their paths and filled them with old coffee cans. Bleary eyed, dirty noses raised, down in the can they’d be covered in…
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