Scout Graves

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“Year 45” by Scout Graves

Submitted to Contest #226

When the world ended 44 years ago, we were told a prophecy from below. Tearing through the molten core, the mantle, the crust, the soil, the flora, the fauna, the air, and the atmosphere, in our world that had ended, we heard the voice of that thing on the tympanum of Notre Dame, the goat headed, nameless harbinger of death, the king lower than the embers of the Earth, and it said to us, "Buy flowers in year 45." No one imagined that the sound which came at the end of world, which prophesied, presumably, our survival, would fall on ...

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