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• Friday, September 18, 2009  12:01 am 

  The sky’s on fire

  Sitting in a pre-fab living room, cold light rendering the wooden walls anaemic, he lifts the empty glass to his lips.  The ground begins to move.  Dust rises, smudging the crisp blue light in a haze.  His dogs bark outside as the chain fence rattles in the rising wind.  Muffled shouts and screams compete for [...]

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• Monday, June 22, 2009  12:05 am 

  Sister Electra’s ballad

  It is the fate of some stars, when they die, to reincarnate here in this planet, or perhaps elsewhere, it’s not for us to say. A child of features faded like a watercolour blur was born the day Electra, brightest of the Seven Sisters, collapsed into itself in the absolute silence of the constellation of [...]

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• Monday, January 19, 2009  12:01 am 

  Swaying in Woe

  Black Meteoric Star’s impending arrival on Earth is marked by harbingers of planetary pressure walls – black linear schisms mapping forbidden languages across the dusk skies, earthquakes cracking the surface of Mars as it draws closer to its terrible alignment with Earth, an ice cold pinprick of darkened dread on the back of the neck [...]

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