June 2012
5 posts
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The folks taught her to erect a second roof when building a desert shelter. Balsam fir resin makes an excellent antiseptic for treating cuts and abrasions. Douse bait with cod liver oil. Disguise your scent with the smoke from green pine needles on a campfire. Cattails are one of the most abundant and best-tasting plants out there. The Pileated Woodpecker digs his home facing east.
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The thing at her bedroom window asks if she’s ready. She does a quick mental inventory of her backpack:
Birdcall
Compass/signal mirror
Thomas Guide of the tunnels underneath Crab Mountain
Mora knife emblazoned with her heraldic badge (merman impaling the sun w/trident)
Midol Teen Formula
The makings of a false nose
Eight fortune cookie fortunes all saying the same thing (A smooth...
It is mid-afternoon, mid-September. He drifts through the mining district where rickety scaffolds burrow down into the undercity. The southern stretch of bungalows where latchkey kids skin knees against sprinkler heads. The ports where tuna purseiners are just now returning home with sad exhausted diesel drones. The salt refineries along the estuary, flanked by stinking brine sluiceways and...
