the oracles and arbiters of all
"The Oracles and Arbiters of All," September 2, 2022 (#245)
Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia Butler (1995)
The New Me by Halle Butler (2019)
From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction by Robert Olen Butler (2005)
The Oracles and Arbiters of All
I saw the grubs eat their way out, then burrow in again, still eating
some kind of collective, gentle human loneliness. The sensations
are able to do so because once they get out there in front of their canvases,
unable to understand why they did not move as she wished,
I was embarrassed to be me and needed someone to reassure
and consider what goes on within you when you read a wonderful
curiosity. Cop or not, maybe he could do something to stop the
meantime for references, and eventually apply for management
to be utterly obsessive about moment-to-moment sensual flow of narrative
beckoning motion with her right hand to let the Community know
myself in the mirror. My face is red, and my shoulders are almost
shiny strips and silk and velvet, like a costume I’d seen once in a school play.
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