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The Next Take
by Jacqueline Howett
Thursday, December 23, 2010
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Alien skin magazine published my micro fiction piece earlier in the year, titled, The next take, and I have decided to post it here.

The Next Take
Micro Fiction
By Jacqueline Howett �2010

My former lives, melted into a puddle of mercury.
In the next take, came magic.
I went with the flow. I merged comfortably into the new era with pierced body parts and tattoos. But I still tremble, knowing it took black holes of time to my rebirth.
I was crawling around on all fours for a time in my living room, separating myself from my sticky embryo. I became a wild nymph like cave creature, who had entered up through the earth where the sky greeted me as one. I spoke in tongues in the process of being born anew, in my developing metamorphosis, wiping the sticky slime from my eyes.
I touched my new form in the mirror. I was pleased.
As I evolved, I started wearing jeans lower on the hips.
A happiness came I had never known. With my first real freedom, I merged into your world.
~ Jacqueline Howett, Florida �2010�

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