Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Coyote Led Sheep

People required of their messenger god he deliver them dreams. And no ordinary dreams, either, but great blustering epics. They didn't know or care how heavy the dreams were or how difficult they were to smuggle across the border; they just wanted their bloated dreams.

And he knew the way. So they paid him - a trickster - to guide them. They thought the briars and vines were laid to trap and trip them, but it was Hermes they should have been worried about. He was the one shouldering their dreams. When they came to a gate in the fog, they knew there was only one of two destinations before them..

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