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Samir Sirk Morató is a scientist, artist, and flesh heap. Some of their published and forthcoming work can be found in Flash Fiction Online, X-R-A-Y, ergot., NIGHTMARE, and khōréō. They are on Twitter and Instagram @spicycloaca.


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My obsidian shadows knifed the moon, drank moonblood until my wandering mouth filled to bursting
In this endless dark winter / he comes as furious as / a lion’s claw
Now that I am back in our homelands, I am haunted. I dream of faces hovering over me, taking my blood. They suck at my veins like infants at a bottle.
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