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Little Tree, Prelude to White Mulberries
Mahin Banu Sameni came from a long line of wealthy bazaari merchants. With hair like a soft, swift death and eyes that just knew better, the Sameni women married well above their social sphere. In 1938, at the age of fifteen, Mahin Banu, the most luminous of her sisters by far, married Asqar Aqa Moftakhar,…
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The Fool
Divinity: Asmān, Guardian of the Sky Manthra: To the high, powerful heavens; to the bright, all-happy, blissful abode of the holy ones. ashnô berezatô sûrahe vahishtahe angêush ashaonăm raocanghô vispô-hvâthrô. (Flowers, Original Magic, 96) Sometimes numbered zero, sometimes twenty-two, often not numbered at all, the Fool is a card of beginnings, or pre-beginnings. A carefree…
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It’s What They Say
April 7th, 2026, 17:45, Landskrona, Sweden Written in response to the President of the United States’ threats today. With notes based on Annie Jacobsen’s book, Nuclear War. They say your skin melts. And your clothes. And your shoes. Melt right off. And your insides become your outsides. I think of their pretty olive skin. Hers…
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