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Scenes from “Shades of Whitetopia”

Scenes from “Shades of Whitetopia”

Chapters I — IV

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Joél Leon
Sep 01, 2017
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Chapters I — IV

here, look. shhh. do you see it? if you attached a scent, a sound, to it? what would it be? don’t let the question mark, the commas and periods confuse you much. this is an opportunity! there is peril and danger here. you don’t see that? the innocence? the innocuous way she stares? it starts this way, i think, i believe, i imagine. no, no…

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