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Game Theory

Tulips

July 8, 2014

Caitlin Vance

The house across the street was dark. It looked as if it had burned down and been re-built from ash and tar and human bones. Bits of wood crumbled off the roof like Play-Doh, and windows were cracked. The grass … Continued

In a Landscape: XXXVI

July 7, 2014

John Gallaher

What year, what moment was it, when all the television aerials came down from our roofs? And now, the skyline is getting all junked up with dangerous-looking post-apocalyptic telephone poles that list with hanging wires. You see them a lot … Continued

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