Shawn Forno

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“Burt Brain” by Shawn Forno

There’s no sound on earth quite like a bird flying into a sliding glass door. Unlike the white noise of mass extinctions and vanishing rainforests, the singular thud of delicate avian bones against shatter-resistant Duraplex glass is impossible to ignore. It's the sound of the natural and man-made worlds colliding, like the off-key fervor of a bronze temple gong struck by a fresh-faced initiate. ...

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Recovering travel writer and content manager with a passion for short stories, science fiction, and poetry. Asimov, Heinlein, Robbins, Quinn, Dahl.

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