Ink Inapplicable (VI/XVI)
The hunger that woke Riffle from the sleep of the rats still burns in him today. He is surrounded by the dead. He is holding a sword at the throat of the imago, and trying—so very hard, with muscles...
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Before the sun. Before the moon. Mammoth, she brings fire from the sky. In the darkness the Three Lords dance. Mammoth steps forward. The Three Lords meet her. Darkness devours Mammoth and her bones....
View ArticleWhat’s Purple and Incarnated in Human Form to Save Us All From Suffering?...
Now Melanie is in the soot-web of the spider, and she is laughing. She is laughing because she has posed a riddle and its answer— Q: What is gray and wrinkly and fights fires? A: A really old fireman....
View ArticleWhat’s Gray and Hurts More than You Can Imagine? (IV/VII)
And Melanie, in the soot-web of the spider, asks her riddle: Why do people hurt? Why do we have to suffer, and fear, and die? And the spider glares at Melanie. It is angry. It is angry because it is...
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The littlest programmer went down to the sea. She turned the waves over and over in her hands. “Ping,” she said, finally, when she was satisfied. And “Ack,” replied the sea. The littlest programmer...
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