Mira Corpora

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Jeff Jackson. Mira Corpora

Mira Corpora. Jeff Jackson

DEDICATION

AUTHOR’S NOTE

I BEGIN

CHAPTER 1. MY YEAR ZERO (6 years old)

CHAPTER 2. MY LIFE IN CAPTIVITY (11 years old)

CHAPTER 3. MY LIFE IN THE WOODS (12 years old)

I CONTINUE

CHAPTER 4. MY LIFE IN THE CITY (14 years old)

CHAPTER 5. MY LIFE IN EXILE (15 years old)

I END

CHAPTER 6. MY ZERO YEAR (18 years old)

MIRA CORPORA (My first fiction)

NOTE ON THE COVER ARTIST

COPYRIGHT

ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

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For Stephanie Eternal thanks: Alethea Black, Giorgio Hiatt, Anna Stein, and John McElwee.

–Paul Éluard

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I ease myself up from the bed. From the closet, I pull out the bag where I’ve packed my clothes, the edges padded with wads of bills that I’ve siphoned off my mother. Through my window, the empty house across the street gives off a haunted glow. The curtains have been stripped from the windows and a bald light bulb burns in a hallway somewhere, dimly illuminating the remaining nothingness.

There are a few things left to pack, including my cassettes of favorite songs taped off the radio. One cassette is still lodged in my walkman. I slip on the earphones and press play. My head floods with the sound of blown-out amps, drilling drums, and the faintest hint of a woozy melody. It gives me a dose of courage.

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