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#MilitantFactionsQuotes 34: I watched Maria watch herself: in every shiny surface, every mirror, eve
Out the corner of my eye I watched Maria watch herself: in every shiny surface, every mirror, every pane of glass that didn’t look out onto the Nordic night, floating like a paranoid vampire, as if hoping to find some better answers than she’d been dealt so far. I knew what she was doing: composing the final walk, that CCTV march into oblivion. You’ve all seen it. Her final moments. Unaware, she. Just a few hours later. Live from Padua TV. It made me think about my stage exit, except no-one would miss me: my moon face, low-res, short on pixels, my heart cold as cancer my eyes like weapons in this hard dead head, leaving the airport to face his –
-From "Crystallize", first published by Aesthetica Magazine 2006, and one of the short stories in Mark Piggott's fiction/non-fiction collection "Militant Factions" - available in paperback or Kindle from Amazon.