“…the Forgotten Works that gradually towered above us until the big piles of forgotten things were mountains that went on for at least a million miles.”
– from ‘In Watermelon Sugar’ (1968) by Richard Brautigan
Brautigan’s vision of iDEATH (sic)
But what is iDEATH? – the Internet implosion of Self?
Last Balcony: Essex Serpents and Pier’s Echo 
My new short short fiction: SHORT SHARP SHOCK
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