{"id":1583,"date":"2024-05-01T19:24:43","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T23:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briefbloom.com\/journal\/?p=1583"},"modified":"2024-07-04T21:31:44","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T01:31:44","slug":"dry-dock-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briefbloom.com\/journal\/dry-dock-six\/","title":{"rendered":"dry dock – six"},"content":{"rendered":"

the ghost and the draft<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

On and on, along the one way.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And quite a quiet way without a word.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

No end in sight, otherwise;
\nnor anywise at all.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n
\n

something like smoke; senseless density and preposterous scale.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

Thinning not, hinting naught;
\non and on and on.<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n
\n

ribbons of disrendered aether, each aflutter. they roll. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

“Hey,” he says, turning to her.<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n
\n

the road from hell<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

“Something wrong?”<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n
\n

is paved as well.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\n

 <\/p>\n

Now\u2014<\/p>\n

oh boy<\/p>\n

Wait-<\/p>\n

\u2014the cold drops hard in a windless rush.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2014no oh no please stop PLEASE<\/p>\n

Noteless noise collapses in on the small voice;<\/p>\n

\u027f\u0258vo \u03f1ni\u0248\u01a8o\u027f\u0287 \u01a8\u0258\u03b3\u0258<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

his world momentarily mangled mad and shredded to static.<\/p>\n

she may be alarmed<\/p>\n

STOP PLEASE STOP PLEASE STOP<\/p>\n

who can say?<\/p>\n

Something like static;<\/p>\n

dm\u03c5n \u03f1nill\u0252\u0287 bnim<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

pretense itself weakens now and bows to cracking.<\/p>\n

\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The third, fourth and fifth docks are each within sudden sight, just ahead of them along the now less long left side of the only one way.<\/p>\n

Just beyond the fifth of the five, the other end can be seen.<\/p>\n

Between them lies a familiar something, of some kind.<\/p>\n

she pays them no gaze<\/p>\n

something here has gone terribly wrong<\/p>\n

and the moment, it seems to the ghost<\/p>\n

may never end<\/p>\n

But it does.<\/p>\n

NO no<\/p>\n

Or seems to.<\/p>\n

please<\/p>\n

And it moves.<\/p>\n

oh god oh<\/p>\n

Something does.<\/p>\n

Behind them.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Something terribly wrong staggers from the shattered hush.<\/p>\n

godohSHIT<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

[say.] it says.<\/p>\n

WHAT THE HELL IS THAT<\/p>\n

[have we met.]<\/p>\n

FUCKING FLY!<\/p>\n

fly fast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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