Lenora Esme’s Moon

Their cycle was eternally ignorant

J.A. Taylor

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JJust as Luna orbits Terra, so his life orbited hers. Just as Terra requires a guide for her seas, so she required his pull. Round and round they danced, eternity past swapping places with eternity future.

The red-orange blood moon hung like a rocky inferno in the late October sky. Forty-year-old Lenora Esme sat naked on a stone circle, a planet…

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