Sunday, April 24, 2011

a Fairy Tale

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Once upon a time,




...from the directions he'd been given, he thought he knew which way to go, but -


...coming upon the bitter sweet sameness of the hotel, he-
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...and felt distracted by the 




...and the walls seemed to press and the-
...while seeming to stretch for miles, 
as a hole in the ceiling, unpatched, leaked





.. all", she yelled from the other side, "it just takes one turn and-
Take off your boots.
I like to leave them on.



...and laughing, he wondered aloud what it was that had driven her to this, to this-



...holding his arm, pressed to the wall, the sign was so clear that he memorized the-




...painful memories, and he hurried past it.




...she said, and maybe this town wasn't the place for him, maybe she was right.



The End


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