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beneath the black tree in the forest there is the part of the chimney that remained.
what housed the fire to safely burn is all that is left after the fire burned the house.

once there was a wind that blew in a circle. everything was pulled in and went around & round.
a black beetle tried to crawl in under the screen door. the wind tunneled over and sucked the beetle in.
the beetle was very small and the wind-circle very large. aided by trauma, time slowed down. the beetle lived many years in the circle of wind. though minutes later, rain came and stopped it all.
in the wind
the beetle met a butterfly. the butterfly was in bed.

i was asleep when the storm hit :said the butterfly

i'm tired :said the beetle

sit on my bed and rest a while :said the butterfly

the beetle crawled into bed.
the beetle and the butterfly fell in love.
later, the butterfly lay too precariously in the bed and the wind took her away.

why was time not slow for her? :thought the beetle

the beetle then realized he had only heard a buzzing when she spoke. and he had made up all the words she said.
time was only slow for the beetle.



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