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You are adept at walking the lines between real and unreal, desperation and hope.

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Thanks Trilety. Gotta keep on that tightrope!

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Powerful stuff, Victor!

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Thanks James! I hope you had/are still having a good trip.

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I always save your posts until I have time to read them 2-3 times. This is another fabulous one, Victor.

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And many thanks for doing that Jim, for taking the time. Glad you enjoyed it!

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Yes! Wonderful fever-dream of a story, unbound from the awful shackles of time and space! I liked this one a lot - maybe I will put it in my stocking next Christmas in a similar attempt to avoid that season's spirit.

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Are you a brother in grinch? Ha.. thanks for checking it out Mike and I'm glad you liked it, unbound and all....

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Victor, This is one of my favorites of your writing. Perfectly captures the dreamlike-hallucination state when someone's in an in-between place, either actually there or there due to a dose of heavy pharmaceuticals.

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Russell, I haven't had any pharmaceuticals lately, but this could be residual effects. Many thanks for checking it out and dropping a message.

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