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Friends Fall Out: Chapter 6

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May 13, 2026
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Friends Fall Out: Chapter 6

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

Put them all to death, scribbles teenage Krill
in twenty-three tales of pseudo-science,
forgotten genre he discovers in
stacks of old pulp-age journals, sloughing ink.
Finds in them: Four-armed bearded bugs of Mars,
Atlanteans who paddle their triremes
on the sea-bed…

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