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    Card City, A Cure for the Crater
    Card City, A Cure for the Crater
    Card City, A Cure for the Crater
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    Card City, A Cure for the Crater

    By Austen Szott

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    What is this beautiful city here, with its mist over these buildings?

    Wander away and find family, and friends, paradise, and care. The medicine is no longer bitter, and sour, made from motion, vector, shape and carve or caress, and still the sugar granulates and washes the water over the tongue.

    Here is where you may hide your help, for the trouble, so that you are not too generous and so that these meals of spectrum and whole nutrition, too pure for any fast to be broken, are fed, irreverent.

    The rafters were laughing, now reveling, leavening the creation, creator, and the rise.

    Now we are home where we can't call these anyone but our brothers in our works--

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAusten Szott
    Release dateJul 23, 2013
    ISBN9781301974726
    Card City, A Cure for the Crater
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    Austen Szott

    Author of numerous novels, novellas, and pieces of short fiction, blends of romance, thriller, horror and visionary science-fiction. Paperback editions and collections at Amazon.com -- https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/s/ref=is_s?k=Austen+Szott

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      Card City, A Cure for the Crater - Austen Szott

      CARD CITY, A CURE FOR THE CRATER

      Austen Szott

      Copyright 2013 Austen Szott

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      We have these gatherings on both sides, the light and the dark. Do we need someone to walk with the dead?

      Everyone here, on this Earth, has been here before, has come to life here more than once. Everyone here asks for the answers just as they're getting them, and blot out the noise in their ears. They all recognize each other because they've seen each other before, have forgotten this before, do forget it, and each other, again, but now it seems like we all pass in the light, bright in our eyes even if they drag us from the bushes where we crawled to hide. Ask the question before the judgment, and hear the answer you cannot accept. It has further regards. It has your spirit in direction, if not in its grasp. What were these? If nothing else, it's tricks and shows that get you to bleed yourself out over their ground instead of your own. There are hospitals and prisons for the bodies of the best of us. I'm a coward, bit of my own lip more often to taste my own red. There was always going to be a center, and

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