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Friends Fall Out: Chapter 5

The Saga of Terminal City: The Complete Urban Epic

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May 13, 2026
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Friends Fall Out: Chapter 5

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

He could take no bus, gray-clayed Harry Shields,
no taxi, train, or solicit help-meet,
on the spot, of strangers, on the streets
and thoroughfares of Terminal City.
Any gloem ideed in act of waddling
would tailed be above by a tense circus
of circling helicopters who…

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