How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
by Scott Hughes
—with thanks to Stanley Kubrick
Heaven hit the ground.
It did. It rammed
right down
into the goddamned
earth. Gold streets smacked
asphalt. Rivers churned
to wine, to blood. Cracked
ivory burned.
Pearl
gates sank home,
shrouded by curls
of silt and loam.
You turned to me and said, “It’s through.”
“Nah,” I said. “It ain’t nothin’ new.”
In 2004, Scott Hughes received an MFA in creative writing from Georgia College & State University. His work has appeared in apt, Chiaroscuro, Crab Creek Review, Crazyhorse, elimae, Exquisite Corpse, The Raleigh Quarterly, Redivider, Strange Horizons, and Word Riot. The first novel in his young adult fantasy series, Magellana and the Mergonauts, is being represented by LJK Literary Management.
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