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Fiction

Immanuel

Kaz Knowlden tells a fishy tale of innocence shattered.

Immanuel glumly navigated the bowl, swimming without any specific mission, but aware that his long-standing partner Moira might sink into one of her dreadful depressions if he showed any loss of confidence on his part. “I’m falling in love with you,” she’d sighed dreamily when she was first plunged into the bowl with him, “because you always know exactly where you’re going and what life is all about.”

He permitted himself an ironic smile at this memory. Where exactly was there to go in a goldfish bowl? If Moira hadn’t twigged this essential truth yet then he had severe doubts about her intellectual capacity. The daft creature still sought out his company day after day by the plastic bridge, wrapping herself enticingly around it as he held forth on his latest sphere of expertise.

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