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    Heaven didn’t want the maiming boy

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    Doug Langille

    Doug Langille

    hack writer & shameless technophile

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    Heaven didn’t want the maiming boy
    Ambling away from the Pearly Gates
    Underneath the Earth, another was watching
    Netherworld needing another soul
    To hunt and gather missing children
    Ignorant of their awful plight
    Never to walk the grass again
    Goodnight

    Photo by See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

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    Tags: fantasy, horror, short-story

    Published: October 24, 2014

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