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MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock-your-socks-off Art and Literature
| Issue 30X: | Dec. 2025 |
| Haibun Story: | 70 words |
| (Zipbun) |
By Colleen M. Farrelly
Scar Wars*
He shows me shrapnel pockmarks marring his upper back. A botched spinal surgery crawls below it leading to a keloid courtesy of a messier knife encounter. The only natural marks line his legs—a tussle lost to a bramble bush as a boy. He crashes on my couch for the night, and I note his other scars.
shadows of an eclipse his service records’ redacted text
*a zipbun
[For details, see Zipbun in Farrelly’s essay “The Haibun Zoo” here in MacQ.]
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