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Watch Every Drop: a community service announcement composed for those who survived the Fall (Kirk Marshall)

Verity La April 23, 2013 Lies to Live By

There’d never come a newly-minted, indignant crimson-kissed day in this place which didn’t evoke some dark, frost-sorry memories to that time when we still had water. I can’t speak for …

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Kirk Marshall

VOX: KIRK MARSHAL

Verity La December 6, 2011 Nonfiction, Verity La Forum

Vox: KIRK MARSHALL The Verity La Forum was conducted by Alec Patric from July 2011 to December 2011 Forum Question:  A New Archaeology Here’s how I choose to argue the …

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Evergrey (Kirk Marshall)

Verity La February 17, 2011 Lies to Live By

There is a tree; the squirrels know this. You could professionally train a red-kneed bird-eating spider to locate it by scent, but still the bulbous globe of the huntress would …

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Bear Vs. Plane! (Kirk Marshall)

Verity La July 25, 2010 Lies to Live By

  We were sitting with calculable comfort at about 3,000 feet, our feeble human engineering warping from the relaxed atmosphere of our immediate surrounds, the cabin lights dimmed in a …

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