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JESUS WINKED
Jesus winked at me, Nan, I exclaimed, shocked and ecstatic, come here quick and see. I remember those eyes clear and crystalline as a crisp April morning showering their aquablue blessings upon that tiny white cabin in Penn’s Woods. I blinked and rubbed my own just to be sure, and – wink – there he…
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DOGMA
The sheikh took a drag from the unfiltered cigarette, then pushed the smoke through his pursed lips like a steam train. Then he replied: “This diversionary world branched from the real world 15 thousand years ago. It began as just a tiny aberration, a wall constructed around a garden in Mesopotamia, in order to conceal…
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A LOVELY SHADE OF GREY
Dr. Allen Jacobs sat in a street-side Trenton cafe in a salvaged old fur coat, a pair of cutoff shorts and a mickey mouse t-shirt watching the mayhem unfold. It started innocently enough, a lone man running down the busy New Jersey thoroughfare, trumpeting through pursed lips and holding his stiff, open-palmed hand out before…
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THE FOURTH GENERATION
At this too-late stage, I see the folly of my work, and I can only beg for your forgiveness, with full awareness that no apology can possibly absolve me for what I’ve done. I was born in 1932, the year that the atom was split. From my childhood, it seemed like the world was the…
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THE BIRTH OF FARGUS SK
There really isn’t a world as such, only the appearance of the world, which in reality is an interlocking system of organic machines, each with its own dimensions and rules, each utterly different from every other. The cogs and wheels and levers of these machines are made of green things, human things, wisps of cloud,…
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MUHANNAD & THE DARK CAVE
Muhannad cowered in the darkness of the cave, pulling the woolen blanket closer to his face. It was the only sensory impression available for him to hold onto, other than the damp, cold, amorphous nothingness that pushed inward through his nostrils and in through the holes of his ears, and soaking into the pores in…
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MAGICAL ARKESTRA COSMOS
The cosmos is the tense silence at the beginning of a Sun Ra concert, like a membrane of darkness, the forces of mayhem building on just the other side of it. A baritone note pulses on the hammond organ, and the knock-knock-knock of the dionysian drum visitors who want to come in and spread a…
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THE AFFLUX BLOCKER CODE
The rebellion of the gods began deep within the fifth earth, fire earth, and up in the heights of the fifth heaven, sun heaven. It began with the most gentle of stirrings triggered by the memory of the five true and glorious names of allah.cipher. This was possible because those were the regions least affected…
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HALLAJ & THE EMPTY THRONE
Al-Hallaj scaled Mount Qaf, the highest of mountains, even until his head peeked through the clouds, and then he gained a caught the tail of a passing comet that carried him into the heavens. Then he leapt onto the lowest of the stars, and climbed his way up through the seven heavens, until he arrived…
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THE TYRANNY OF THE ONE
The wall was innocent enough an undertaking at first. Elom only wanted to protect his delicate crops from roaming hungry beasts. He’d noticed something fascinating in his journeys. Just a few years earlier, he and his band had to abandon an encampment quickly because of the ferocity of the winds and rains there. They had…