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One Thousand Years  by DAVID BULLEY

2 May 2007
Vol. 7, No. 1
fiction

The cold had come in a calm so complete not a molecule of water had moved, and not a leaf had fallen from a tree, not a bug nor animal nor drop of snow or rain had moved the water. Water needs movement in order to change. The same way you can microwave water far beyond boiling and it will sit unboiled until you touch it with a spoon and it explodes, that same way water can sometimes freeze unfrozen, and stay that way, on the edge of ice until something touches it.

Arriving in One Piece  by LAURA MADELINE WISEMAN

2 September 2004
Vol. 4, No. 3
fiction, magical realism

When I woke up without my little toe, I knew it was going to be the day.

 

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