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Greg Lemon's avatar

This is such a lovely piece of fiction; the pervasive sense of narrative tension throughout; the bifurcation of humanity via each individually held perspective on superstitions - the two protagonists who can see the cause and effect vs "the rest of the ignorant world (who) poured bottled blindness in their eyes to shield themselves from the outrages and dangers"

Love your prose as well - "Even a pink and songful emergence of sunrise caused choleric sandstorms to rasp her mood into rough splintered barnwall." - the choice of words here, along with the rhythmic unfolding of them, is incredible.

Great work!

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Edward Rooster's avatar

So good, "He had seen in fog and in clear air how all superstition gave birth to itself from the hot phosphorus of fact."

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