THERE SWINGS A SKULL FREE ON ITCH IO

 

It hangs high, on the gallows of the loudspeakers, visible from every house in Pareildas; its image haunts every resonant screech emanating from the gallows' distorted speakers.

But when the gallows-speakers are silent, and the desert wind plays through the empty streets, one can almost fantasize about the solace of liberation:

Of a train winding along curved tracks; its arrival at Terminus, its doors softly opening, and its steady path towards a distant ocean...

... but once it ends, it's just a dream.

How can one be consoled by an imagined escape?

When only routine silences the gallows' screams?

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