The Dark Balloon

A weblog by Hao Lian.
A terrible secret guarded by golems.
A note that thanks you for being born, all those years ago.

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Oh, you look like a pirate! A handsome pirate!

M. H.

Captain Blackbeard stared at the gaunt figure in the mirror, porcelain tiles swathed around these twins. “Sometimes I think about shaving,” he mused to no one. He wished he had a protégé; anybody to talk to, really. He reached for his razor blades. “Needle in the Haystack” began playing.

The Tenacious Lip Baums: A Trial and Error Kind of Life on the High Seas: An Autobiography in Third-Person, Captain Blackbeard
[(2008 June 28) • • • .]

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