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MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock-your-socks-off Art and Literature
Issue 31: Jan. 2026
Microfiction: 65 words
By Daryl Scroggins

Knapping in a Metropolis by the Sea

 

In a great room filled with arrowheads under glass, I shudder at the number of chips they required. The efforts of how many years? Hands protected by hide; a piece of antler to tap or press a flake away. The small bays left on stone are filled with faint fracture waves. Radiating through millennia, from blood to blood.


 

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