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@inoneear wow. this image made me think of a picturebook you might enjoy —see

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unwritten chapters

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9. To be continued… Thanks for listening to this thread of the . Stay tuned for more in

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8. Were wayward ones in need of counsel, healing and, if unturned, in need of unmaking and rewilding. Druid assassins took care of this.

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7. … some even claimed undead to what was woven through their bodyminds. It was widely agreed that humans, or the fingered as some said, were not sound, were young ones who’d lost their way.

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@annk @petewalkden Thank you!Hope you enjoy the entire (ongoing)

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6. The baysed included air & water-breathers, hemoglobins & chlorophyllin, flyers & crawlers, feelered & clawed. Among the baysed were many theories why humans were unseeing, unfeeling…

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5. Among the baysed, humanoid forms were one among innumerable. But all knew themselves to be no more than an outgrowth of, an aspect of, a sense of.

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4. From the perspective of the baysed, humans were the anomalies, failing to sense or feel themselves. As part of landbayse.

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3. The landbayse was the source of all organic life and intimately connected with all its parts.

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2. The humans were upstart among baysed folk, who knew how to keep to themselves. Their own.

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1. And so Magda began her story, in a low voice, as if summoning…

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This is the fourth installment of Teatime Storyhour. Scroll up for ch. 1–3.

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14. To be continued… Thanks for listening to this thread of the . Stay tuned for .

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19. To be continued… Thanks for listening to this thread of the . Stay tuned for .

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13. “… when they dissolve the boundaries that confine us & urge us to extend the potentialities of our imperfect, broken, incomplete selves. Those apricots… were they tears too? & this book, is it tears? Who drinks your tears, who has your wings, who hears your story?” ( — ibid)

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12. “Moths drink the tears of sleeping birds. The birds sleep on, inadvertent givers. The moths fly on, enriched. We feed on sorrows, on stories, on the spaciousness they open up when they let us travel in our imagination beyond our own limits…”

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11. “but that they are no longer so different, and the distance between them can be closed by desire… Perhaps the stories propose that human beings are perpetually naked animals, more a potentiality than an identity.” (”)

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10. “He had managed to marry her because she took off her skin—in these tales being a bear, a swan, a serpent, is like wearing a garment, and when they strip naked, it’s not so much that they’re human…”

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9. Unblinking. Unwaking. Unaware of the within? In the passenger seat. Touching between worlds. Where are my sisters? Along the equators and bestriding the poles unbeknownst and betwixt. This is how they were know in this iteration of Landbayse: the betwixt.

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