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    Even When the World Has Told Us We Have Ended
    Even When the World Has Told Us We Have Ended
    Even When the World Has Told Us We Have Ended
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    Even When the World Has Told Us We Have Ended

    By Cat Hellisen

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    A Muse and its client reinvent the story of Rapunzel after their death.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCat Hellisen
    Release dateDec 31, 2019
    ISBN9780463340097
    Even When the World Has Told Us We Have Ended
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    Cat Hellisen

    Cat Hellisen lives in Cape Town, South Africa. She is also the author of When the Sea Is Rising Red.

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      Even When the World Has Told Us We Have Ended - Cat Hellisen

      EVEN WHEN THE WORLD HAS TOLD US WE HAVE ENDED

      Copyright 2019 Cat Hellisen

      Published by Cat Hellisen at Smashwords

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      Even When the World Has Told Us We Have Ended

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      There’s a story I know—one you don’t, the girl says. About a girl in a tower. She lies on her back, stretched out on the hardwood floor, smoking a thin-rolled joint, watching the ghostglow play across the ceiling as the strands of LEDs move in a humid breeze. Her skin is shimmered with sweat, the faint scales opalescent in the shifting light. The rain drums counterpoint to her voice.

      The Muse is curled at the end of the mattress, back to the wall, arms hugging its knees close. It has put distance between this sprawling starfish girl and itself. Their transaction is over, but the girl has made no move to leave. She seems to be making herself at home, as though the Muse is a new friend she has made, rather than a drug she uses.

      It wants her gone.

      And it doesn’t.

      It’s rare for Divers Peoples to talk to the Muse as though it has feelings, thoughts of its own. Perhaps it can still remember the art of conversation. There’s always a girl in a tower. It digs through its collection of bottles, looking for the moonshine one of its johns paid it last week.

      But this tower, it’s different. And this girl, maybe she’s different too. I don't know, this is just the story I heard. In snatches. Whispers and the like. So this happened here in New Hope, where everyone comes to live.

      Not everyone. Just most of them, the broken feebs all rolled up out of nothingness, and gathering around New Hope like flies around a corpse. It’s a maggot-place, heaving and sighing and twitching, but it’s still a corpse

      At the edge of New Hope, there’s a tower. But not that one. The girl with the silver hair stops her story to take a drag on her joint, a matchstick width of crumbled leaves sweet with resin. The paper is blackened and sticky, leaving marks on the girl’s glimmering fingers.

      The perfume that fugs the room is drier and

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