The Monochrome Shadows
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Last published Fri, Nov 18, 2016
In this world of monochrome, children are born from a collective womb, defects are normal, common even. The list is long and senseless, but not to the ones who help the children form their new bodies from their shapeless forms of darkness. From the minute these children are born their lives are known, from the past lives that cannot be tracked, to the present, and the hazy turned clear future.
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