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Racey Brown

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Last Days

I woke up to a thunderclap. And then a second, then a third.  They cracked against the air like a whip. A gardening book with a yellow jacket lay on the ottoman (chesterfield, deep-buttoned brown). Nana liked to collect things. The jacket was torn at the corners and covered in dust. Ragged newspapers were littered on the coffee table. Some actor had died, found in his bedroom eaten by crawling things.  The walls were caulked with religious knicknacks and oil landscapes, the blue flowery sprawl of wallpaper barely peeking out. The ...

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