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Halo Hagios

A horror story of salt and saints

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Garen Glazier
Mar 18, 2025
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Image credit: Scott Osborn via Unsplash

I trace the windblown veins of salt with my feet, stumbling toward the heart of something buried long ago.

The wind gusts, kicking up grains of salt and scrubbing them against my arms, my legs, my face, scouring away the last of my childhood. Above the sun is a white eye in a white sky, baking away the last of my ig…

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