Thursday, January 16, 2020

NOT DAMAGED, SIMPLY ERASED

By Ben Greenman
from forthcoming collection, as yet untitled

Yesterday, about six o’clock, word was received in town of a building disappearing on the night of the 7th about fifteen miles to the west of Canary Industry Falls. The particulars are not known. The building, a large house, was not damaged, simply erased. The following is a list of those who were inside, in order of increasing age, and then an alphabetical list of their professions: Jason Lee, Jennie Lee, Ron Holly, Eileen Jennifer Warren, Louise Escape, Alice Bertram, Emma Bucknell, Henry Blank, Steve Weart, Pedro Carrau, Lucille Carter, Sara Compton Clark, Gladys Chernow, and Esteban Uruchurtu; acupuncturist, cage cashier, cook, designer, electrician, flight instructor, genealogist, green builder, naturalist, naturopath, student, student, surgeon, wind energy engineer. 

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