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ISSN 1750-6646 | 138mm x 216mm | 60pp | ed.s Paul Neads & Andrew Myers. NB: Subscribers’ and contributors’ copies are in the mail.
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...A dragonfly sailed overhead, and she ran her hand across the scab again. It was big. A bold intrusion stuck out like Mount Everest in the centre of a neatly mown lawn. One good scratch should sort it, though. Nothing could be more satisfying than ripping the unwanted clot from its roots.
It didn't hurt. Her lengthy nails gouged their way beneath its stronghold, wrenching it from its roost, peeling it from her soft, otherwise unblemished skin. She felt it pop off and was careful to catch it in her palm. Morbid curiosity had her wanting to examine it. To see the shade of dull brown, the glistening underbelly where the blood would still be wet, the crusty finish, and perhaps even one or two hairs sprouting through it.
She opened her hand, and screamed.
It wasn't a scab...
