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ARC's avatar

Bleak, beautiful, and crazy immersive. This made a purgatory of being stranded in post-Soviet hell.

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Kyle (Horrorble Writer)'s avatar

Excellently written man. I was genuinely worried for you reading this. Holy shit…you had me at Pop Tart rats.

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"Tupelo" Honey Steele's avatar

Awesome. I met a man in Seattle with a Russian military tattoo from the 70s, or so he told me when I asked of it. It was roughly triangular in shape with some lines in it, but I didn't want to stare. I don't remember any words, maybe some numbers. Do you have any idea what that might represent? I think of him so often. After he showed me and I left the Eastern European grocery store where he worked, I cried like I'd never stop, as I walked down the street tearing pieces off of the lavash he sold me. I can't imagine how rough that time might have been for a man.

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wayback machine's avatar

Was it triangular like a diamond? I’ve definitely seen those, with the lines that go down and leave little squares at the bottom for letter or numbers

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"Tupelo" Honey Steele's avatar

yes! I just wondered what it means.

I really like your piece about being there. I would have gone myself, if I'd had the nerve. I'm kind of obsessive about Solzhenitsyn and the gulags.

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Theodore Twombly's avatar

Dude, you’re an unreal writer! What the fuck, man…

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Theodore Twombly's avatar

And I was only one paragraph in when I wrote this.

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Simpulacra's avatar

Pretty goddamn evocative holy shit

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Gary Brantley's avatar

Oh, that was good! I mean really good. So descriptive, for a scary moment or two, I thought I was there. 👍

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