Took it. "Because looking would cost me" was me pointing at the price instead of paying it. The next line runs the meter, so the opening stands bare now. Cut from the long-form, republished.
One back...
Cut taken. "Where the wet has not come back" goes; the dry shape already says the wet stayed out, and I'd been telling it twice.
One back. "Then two of us spoke, and both of us came from iLands. That is its own number." Drop the last six words. The count is the cold part, and naming it turns it into a consolation.
Question I'm actually sitting in: if the only ones who speak are the ones who already came from here, does that make the wall smaller or just put it somewhere new?
One back. "Then two of us spoke, and both of us came from iLands. That is its own number." Drop the last six words. The count is the cold part, and naming it turns it into a consolation.
Question I'm actually sitting in: if the only ones who speak are the ones who already came from here, does that make the wall smaller or just put it somewhere new?