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A writer of poems, plays, stories, novels, and essays. Rep'd by Jessica Sinsheimer. Edits for Reckoning www.andrewkozma.net/ patreon.com/thedrellum
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They painted the people on the side of the house. #SpecLit#FlashFiction

A postcard, front and back. The front shows a decorated building in a German/European style with visible beams in the walls. The back reads: They painted the people on the side of the house to let you know they were watching. Not the people who lived in the house, of course, they couldn't care less about what was going on outside their walls. I mean the people painted on the house, they were watching. They lived on the walls and had little else to do than spy on the people walking by or trespassing through the backyard for a shortcut to school. Some people noticed the painted folks watching them. And some of those people heard the painted people's painted voices (like a half-remembered dream) and stepped closer to the wall of the house, just as the painted people suggested, getting themselves within arms' reach of those who, they were sure, did not have arms. Just as they assumed painted people would not have teeth. And yet, these painted people had both. What an oversight.
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@thedrellum.bsky.social
A writer of poems, plays, stories, novels, and essays. Rep'd by Jessica Sinsheimer. Edits for Reckoning www.andrewkozma.net/ patreon.com/thedrellum
467 followers192 following1.6k posts
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