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  • ordovician limeshale she/they

Mais il n'y a rien là pour la Science. Editor, New York Review of Wasps.


to a hard rattling shake that slides your bed two feet to the right. Ten seconds later, another jolt sends your bed an equal distance to the left. You throw off the covers and step over the piles of books and boxes and balls of yarn periodically skittering across the floor on your way to the window. Peering out, you are dismayed to find the house, the lawn, the trees extending out for yards and yards lifted discontinuously above the surrounding terrain. Another impact and the maple in the front yard from which you had hung the bird feeders is slowly sloping over, tearing up great bolts of grass and soil as its gray trunk and branches slide off and away. It collapses to the ground three dozen feet below and, with another shake, is left behind as everything around lurches forward yet again. Beneath where the maple spent twenty years growing, now exposed: An immense ridged scute, a turtle-shell scale that could roof a two-car garage. A two-hundred-foot-long snapping turtle elected to hibernate under your house and has emerged to begin its trek back to open water. You unwind the clasp on the manila folder that has just fallen on you from on top of your bookshelf, and confirm your worst fears: This is not covered by your homeowners insurance policy.


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