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Calibration 74: Chapter Fifty-One
Dec 9, 2020
Calibration 74 is a serial novel experiment, posted raw and unedited as it is written. It is recommended you start at the beginning.
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Chapter Fifty-One
A HERD A FLOCK A MURMURATION A MURDER
Forty-seven mynah birds lined up in a row.
Blocking the path to the place I wish to go.
Do I cross them?
Do I break the chain?
Each and every one of them
Different but the same.
Here and now boys
here and now.
They scream
they squawk
they chirp
they howl.
Step ahead cautiously, prepared to run and flee
And the flock of feathered warning parts like Moses’s Red Sea.
