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you get to cry
you lose your powers
you even lose your cat
your familiar

you get to cry lustrous tears
(you do get Jimmy Stewart)

who wouldn't want
to hang out with elegant
madcap Elsa Lanchester

(she would have been
your future)

and wacky bongo-
drumming Jack Lemmon
in witchcraft-teeming
New York City

but no, it's 1958
(you get to be a wife)



Gwynne Garfinkle lives in Los Angeles. She is the author of a novel (Can't Find My Way Home) and two collections (Sinking, Singing and People Change), all published by Aqueduct Press. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Fantasy, Uncanny, Escape Pod, and Worlds of Possibility. For more about her work, visit http://gwynnegarfinkle.com.
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8 Jun 2026

But I am no king, no man. It is a role I assumed in serving, with perfect order, those who scarcely saw fit to name me. Wild and shimmering, I hide from myself no longer. I was born twice from death. It is time to mend what was broken, even if they will not.
i am learning my new friend’s language / she said do you want to look for frogs sometime
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