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Earth -2.0

Alexandra Callewaert

Weekly Contest #232

I have taken up residence in the corner of this room. The only windows are my eyes and the walls are the steadily built bricks of my calves and thighs on either side of this chair. My throne.  This is not simply a residence, it is a kingdom. My kingdom. An impenetrable one made not of steel and iron, but of eyes and ears and bones and skin. No one can harm me here, no one can pick me apart and tell me lies and break me into unrecognizable little pieces. I make the laws here. I police the streets. I am the judge, the jury, and the exec...

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