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Fire Down Under 
by Marge Simon 

He pulls the curtains open, but he can’t see the sky for the dry weeds. He’s been thinking of his wife. Cancer took her before the drought. He’d grumbled about their cat scratching the furniture, but his wife knew his heart. When a starving dingo killed it, he’d cried like a little kid.  He leaves the fridge open for the cool, but today it chugs to a final stop. So he lays out three lines of what his buddy C.J. calls Indigo Moon, but it’s all the same to him.

When darkness falls, he checks the cabinet. There it is, the bottle of Bundy Rum

with all the little marks he’s made on it, an inch or so at a time, to make it last.

Screw this, he fills a glass to the brim, opens the window to let in some cooler air.   The tree on the horizon’s lit like Christmas, and he feels the wind rising.

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Fiction © Copyright Marge Simon
Image courtesy of Pixabay.com 

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Cast from Darkness
by Marge Simon and‎ Mary Turzillo

Cast from Darkness is another triumphant collaboration between award-winning Speculative poets, Marge Simon and Mary Turzillo.

The poetry includes themes running the spectrum of the speculative genres and forms ranging from the haiku through many nuances of vere libre to the prose poem.

Available on Amazon!