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FUGUE # 13, Spring/Summer 1996
~ She realized when she was sh: she was pregna · nt. Tht• hrotht•r she had alwavs wanted was
Jls.gr·owing t•dopicall~ on the \V;tll .of her intestine product of an alien abduction. . He matured slowly. several hundn·d tho~.~.al· )·d. . ·..cell~ a.. year. her waste. On her thtrteenth bartbday I ·~~-.. among he hccanw a miniature tclevisionseta.t.)d bt•ga _...t
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unplanted m her tongue• . "J<Jill\;JJ!,y,, l"tc·~ald. "Show me:yyJI':J.;are." "·f:~~~tO.rder simulacnuf1:.S..F' llfftes thf: pifitn~ffl.::liYi.,t:he absor ption of appe~W'Pce~, or:~· ~. lid_l1:'i<bition of j~ the r~al." sh~fJ]>Iied~ . ~fi\a~tf!;eH.~ drug~ed her father usmg chemreals 'f.~mnQ.-.in·'tll~ sahva T of rare re~ S. o~th Am~ns . ·?·.n·.· tr~.'·.· .t··.r·o. g.•·~. ·. .sb·.· .e:_.s lhthc L red on ~rs Btg l\l~c. ·':Ife ~ah~f!.~:~Y,:W;tt, ~lle had done. hut •t~.~ l<;JO ta.te,v ~e c.~~IP,p;;1o·., . )t~!r:t.he tabl • c. It wasn rt -~.mough ·.to ~ktll htm, tb()~g1i,so she nmunagcd through ·the kttchcn and h>eated a stea knife, which she inserted, once. onefourth-inch deep, into his right biceps. then ran from the house, hitchhik.· e···d· into thecou.nt. r.y, and stood in the middle of a cornfield, waiting for the silver products .~Ir~Fr i~~Wi-9~f~o~ to beam her
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ing souls of electlf'·':::''·'• .A< ~i:lii\nged, and lethallv .injecte~ serial ki(.(~i)~{~t~;z~d by the scent (i frog sah,·a. beef, aq~!~§l>e~!alsauce- on her tinge rtips. She died a bi•P.d hiss-filled death. "You reall,y love me," her brother whispered ~~ . sbe pel'ishe~. "You love me, you Jove m~ ¥9..~{~\~~S. me . . . . ./ '· ·;;;;.~~i-VIl::
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