Old age brings with it, for example, a most unnatural fragmentation of the body: the left hip goes years before the right; this or that organ begins to fail while the one adjacent to it remains perfectly healthy; every piece of you turns out to be on its own separate schedule.
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Joachim Glage lives in Colorado. His short stories, often about imaginary and fabulous (and sometimes murderous) books, have appeared in ,I>The Georgia Review, Philosophy and Literature, LitMag, Santa Monica Review, Sci Phi Journal, and many other periodicals and anthologies. A collection of these stories, The Devil's Library, is forthcoming from JackLeg Press.