Stories tagged cheryl-snell

Shiva's Arms

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Alice did not know how long she had been lost. Her head crowded with strangers and when Ram came to her, he left in tears. The young doctor, his florid face already marked by a fine network of red veins across nose and cheeks, ran in every few hours, ran out again…

Poem with Radiometer

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Four vanes pierced by a spindle, a cotillion in black and white. Moving in atmosphere lighter than air, one searches out the other moving away. As inside the glass, outside. You move slowly through me, and light bounces from one skin to the other,…

The Chase

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A man rounds the corner, zigzagshadow reaching for the womanwho steps out of it. A latecomer, he can't catch up to the lady strolling through dusk that blazed gold only this morning,…

Rescuing Ranu

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Jackson had not left the university. Nela only found out this fact the following weekend, when she collided with him at a department function. “You!” she said. “You look surprised,” he said, …