The Flowage Rebellions

The Muratorian Fragment contains a list of the extant histories of the Midwestern Water Wars. The most interesting witness to the formative stages of the rebellions was a woman known only as Sister Pulcheria, who, in either tribute or “penance of the spectrum”, added mysteriously potent dye concentrations to water sources, inadvertently creating the first Flowage Rebellion according to the Chronologies of the Water Wars. Bright spectral coloration became synonymous with covert insurrection, which led to both the Forbidden Palette Act, and the sweeping Pigment Prohibition Laws of the mid-century. Color attacks, characterized by their vehemence and violence, were frequent, and their punishment swift and brutal. Words such as tone, green, yellow, hue, blush, crimson, blench, redden, color, colour, colorize, discolor, discolour, emblazon, people of color, people of colour, vividness, chromaticity and tinge were forbidden in public use, creating the Covert Lexical Movement, often subsequently associated with baroque and poetic syntactical style. “Lexical” thus became shorthand for “one who brings color-to-water” and has since been used as both rebuke and honorific.

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Polyfoam Landing

“We have no thought of falling incorrectly, away from commonsense, and no capacity to wonder at trifles” was our only thought while falling. Air insulators mitigated gravitation’s risk. “We fall from cloud-purge, a high building, a slight motion, into the slubby weave of Danish design.” Dark tuxedo legs of a benchmade chair welcome us with barrel arms curved in a warm hug, the clean tapered back broken only by our thoughts of landing.

Thoughts in flight:

    1) shut off gravity supply,
    2) remove wind memory,
    3) make chair much softer and larger,
    4) gently pull wings from wall outlets.

While falling we wonder, “why is language failing when we need it most?”
We are unable to speak or spell our last few words before landing.

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