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December 2, 2013 by L.S. Johnson

(this has been a nice run)

my flash fiction “salmacis” is now up at mirror dance

in the meantime, i am home here with a proper flu—fever, congestion, aches

so what do i do? work on the writing, of course:

  • dayquil
  • shostakovich
  • 0.5mm needle point red pen

i can’t think a coherent thought to save my life, but i can still go through my tic-list and cut out all my bad habits: everything done carefully, all the coulds and woulds because i wasn’t quite sure; at once / suddenly / for a moment because those are me-marks, not story text, my shorthands as i nail down a sequence of interaction

and a new one this pass: cacophony

though it seems a damn pity to cut such a beautiful word. which is probably how it ended up getting used so much.

cacophony

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