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kaolin fire presents :: For those wondering where their bodies have gone…


first published in Jabberwocky, issue 17


Were you looking when the flash hit, a click, a smile on your face? Or were you simply drained away one moment at a time, shot from cover? Blessed are they, the fractured—a hundred selves all separate, equal in self despite a certain primacy intrinsic in one's faded memories of another.... It's getting crowded; the management is aware—the pressure of some billion disembodied voices can be quite discomfiting. They apologize, but the re-supply ships are notoriously late, and management's best efforts at pruning, well! They admit, with some self-deprecation, they hadn't imagined how fast you all would grow! Your bodies? Oh! They're outside, as ever, empty shells just dreaming that they're you, running off some half-imagined hint of what you were to them; don't worry, they're fine. Just bringing more of you to harvest in the most—you say, humane?—manner possible; as if not a thing had changed.

First published in Jabberwocky, issue 17, 2012-12-21. That magazine is gone, so this is the copy that’s left.

As it ran

For those wondering where their bodies have gone… as printed in Jabberwocky, issue 17 (2012)

Jabberwocky, issue 17 (2012)




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