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Spiral

September 29, 2017 by admin

The nautilus, the seed unfurling, a meditative shape.

That’s one direction the spiral can go.

The other is straight down to hell.

One bad thought opens the door to a flood of other bad ones.

A single thing becomes a million things.

But the single thing can also lead to nothing.

A spiral is a path.

One thought is a point on that path.

But a point can just be point rather than part of a path.

That’s the trick.

To let one bad thought be that, by itself, without letting it form a path, and then to let that thought pass into nothingness.

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About the Author

Peter Fugazzotto is a fantasy and science fiction author who fights to protect the earth by day and battles his ego with armbars and slashing sticks by night. He lives in Northern California with his wife, daughter, bird and dog. His short stories have been published in Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, Grimdark … READ MORE

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