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Fiction

Gulliver’s Travels / continued

by Peter Rickman

The hero arrives at the Island of Truth and travels on to the Island of Post-Everything.

After sailing a wide and stormy ocean traversing fog banks and passing melting icebergs, we at last sighted land. Even from the distance we saw what looked like human beings, so we drew into shore. An elderly man followed by several others greeted us on the sands. I bowed to him and explained that we were lost voyagers.

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