And In That Photo There Is - by Thomas Doerksen
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With Surprise Special Guests William and Virginia
You crack open the laptop, sip a cup of mango green tea, and tuck the faux-fur blanket under your legs. An email from Tom’s substack clogs your inbox. Out of obligation, you click. You read, “You crack open the laptop,” and the sentence shoves a pillow of nonsense in your mouth, it angrily stabs little wads of cotton in your ears. Out the window, a raven weighs down the bough of a pine tree, a beak as sleek as a gun. How unfair of him to suck you somewhere separate from life, to trap you in a Borgesian labyrinth of meta-reference. He wants the words to lay over your situation like a…
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