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NEW STORY: Turtle-Gate

danielbrotzel • May 7, 2021

We shall fight each other on the beaches...

'Turtle-Gate' came to me on a holiday. Thanks to new American literary magazine Flyover Country for putting it out there.


It quickly became clear to him too that the new family did not like his turtle, especially as little sandy avalanches from the creature’s growing shell kept tumbling onto the space they had marked out as theirs.


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Photo by Kris Mikael Krister on Unsplash


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