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> short story submission, thanks for reading:
>
> little lies / twin islets
>
> looking into the second stage flip flops with socks dork with glasses
> and earphones, cutter chasing the obese, cutter chasing the middle-aged
> white woman who takes good care of her figure, inl chasing the educated
> minorities, boob jobs ascending, becoming no more educated than when
> they began, living in a prison but they don't know it. executioners
> rising and descending, missed their cue i suppose, all because the
> executed was hidden quite well (you might miss her), his supervisor
> rises to see what's going on, everyone is taking risks, leaving with
> the empty green bag, her sunglasses on top of her head, fake tits
> descends safely making the way for the wrecking crew and the chop shop
> everyone gets new gear i can't hang with her, the email always beling a
> kiss redhead knows, the supervisor has given up and the whole thing has
> turned round on itself people are happy again bless them i suppose it
> was only life.
>
> repetition, beret coming down, followed by white male bourgeoisie, then
> frat boy, pink bag ascends, the intelligence coming down in backpacks
> and plastic shopping bags, ducks way out in the corner of my eye, inls
> not nearly in so much of a rush as the first time around, the cops know
> on this second go-through what i am up to they are on their cell phone,
> the executed descends again unnoticed, the supervisor trundles back up
> the stairs, finding nothing but smiles all around there is a lie
> enclosed in the failed execution it is the lie that we abide by so that
> the world is not overdetermined, sunglasses again on the top of the
> head how little light and then back into a state of intelligence, the
> gains from the fire sale less impressive this time, the green bag
> becomes a little lighter, looking around, eventually the thing is
> exhausted and i have been found out that's ok there is still time.
>
> 3rd cycle: pink shirt, black, this time the supervisor is so old he can
> barely ascend, he stares at me directly, knows exactly who i am and how
> i have participated in this lie, if i stay any longer the white leave
> in clothes of dark trying to avoid the execution the green leaves
> dressed as a man, no longer primitive, tries to avert the apocalypse
> this time by learning all possible noble lies, becoming a man in the
> world of laws and fathers, but it is no matter, she still wears red
> pants and dies all the same, her green blood trickling behind blonde
> hair her ear betraying everything the executioner finally satisfied.
>
> dead, beyond the river styx, the trannie, the one who thought she could
> learns all the ways and that would be enough the supervisor is in a
> congratulatory mood, he brings his friend to inspect her body which she
> voluntarily displays, pulling her hair back to show the wound. the
> world is fascinated, people from the world over come to inspect the
> body. and so it begins again. this is what the world has been waiting
> for. for the holder of the noble lies to give up her ghost so that the
> process of knowledge and education could begin again. the abyss stares
> at me and so i do not hold its gaze. instead a yellow pen is carried in
> the mouth, the next one, forever young red and white, symptomatic of
> that abyss, beautiful knowing how to wear green even before her time,
> the men learning to be quick to avoid the killing, thinking better of
> it, hatted, glasses and jackets, while she is biting her lip in the
> world beyond, limping her best still to ascend, never suspecting him, i
> am now within the prison house it was inevitable, you stay too long and
> you can only take the walkways back no bridges and suddenly they are
> looking at you as at a fresh piece of meat as if you will be the next
> to die so that they can take what they want ding in the three, the most
> intelligent man trading everything for a new book oh yes she knows it
> it is obvious don't be scared green motherfuckers surrounding me
> wanting to take me down into their filth will i will i keep my head
> above the sea now the sunglasses are on the light is at its most
> blinding position and she holds the rifle directly above me all i can
> see are her legs she has learned how to annihilate me so that i might
> die with her taking life two steps at a time too quick i might say at
> that rate i may be able to evade her and her hachet men. i have
> evidently crossed over now it is no longer the woman who is up for
> execution but me the man holding something some lie that is found to be
> attractive i look to my computer to try to find a pathway out they are
> looking at the same thing i am looking at their intelligence has grown
> they can disguise their looks very well perhaps i will get out of here
> perhaps not they keep on bringing in more and more people the squirrel
> tail moving quickly in heat i made my case and now i wait for the
> verdict. the two sides converse. my lawyer seems to say something
> satisfactory: if i remember the dead, i will live.
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