short fiction

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FLAMINGO BAY

subsumed within its own walls, the walls of an ancient temple, a monolith hewn roughly from the oldest, most primitive strands of DNA.

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little red eyes that stare down at Alberic
with as much undisguised hatred
as an illustrated hedgehog can possess.

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through the salt-veil of seawater and years
you smell strong tea and boot polish-