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the day devices attacked

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the day devices attacked

The day devices attacked, it was during the typical morning grind of rush hour in New York City. Businessmen and women, dressed in summer linens and slim-cut suits, moved like schools of fish, surging up and down the twisting, churning mass that was Midtown. Unbeknownst to the bumper-to-bumper lines of caffeine-addicted, Ritalin-popping, antidepressant-snorting professionals, a [...]

Narrative, Poetry, Short Story/Prose

the lock

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the lock

you promised to meet me here, by the pier, alongside the dying trees, and across the dancing leaves that drift off the ledge, and plunge with a whistle and scream. elated, i waited: may he be tender, may he be sweet, may the young man come to me, and sweep me off my feet. daunted [...]