The Flaneur

The Flaneur

The Devil's Ringmaster

Chapter Seven: Give Up The Ghost

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Iain Martin
Jul 18, 2025
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Here is the place.

If you lie down here, in exactly the right position, your legs stretched out along a length of root, your back rested against the tree-trunk, just so, and if you look upwards, at exactly the correct angle, then the canopy of the trees above you looks…unusual. Especially if a wash of bright morning sunlight should hit it and illuminate …

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