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"Archaeologists have unearthed the oldest known wooden structure, and it’s almost half a million years old."

this contested normalcy
tidepool amid storm surge
vouchsafes no continuance

only that some part of the map
still corresponds in rough outline

one checker at Aldi's

"Better buckle up then as it sounds like a wild ride is in store." (via @LadyLiminal1)

" 'Why do you have to kill either of us?'

'It's an imperative,' the person said. 'It is a pleasure-pain paradox imperative. Girl. you just do not understand people. You don't understand what makes them go. Killing is really the only fun.'

'No, it isn't fun,' she insisted wearily. 'It's something else.' She made a sign, and Marshal-Julio and a couple of his assistants seized the person.

'Oh, what a dirty trick!' the person wailed. 'We might have expected something better from someone like you. It's a breach of faith for you to retaliate.'

'We'll take him and shake some answers out of him,' Marshal-Julio said.

'No you won't,' Aurelia smiled. 'Only reasonable people have answers.' " --Aurelia

Battles near Staromayorsky.