Thursday, October 8, 2009

Once upon a time

Once upon a time I was a novel. I had characters, themes, pages. But the world changed. People could marry who they liked. Orphans found their parents not by finding themselves but by DNA testing. Cliff's notes took my themes with few well-chosen words, and deforestation took some, then all, my pages. Oh, I was a novel, once...

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