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Jonas David is a writer living in the Seattle area. He is an editor at Lucent Dreaming magazine, and his stories have appeared in Fireside Magazine, Writing Disorder and others. Additional writing and info can be found at jonas-david.com, and you can follow him on Twitter @thejonasdavid.

shrinking light, growing darkness

here is another thing i wrote

i was (am?) heavily in my thomas bernhard phase here.

okay: https://www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/the-goat

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