Universal Ear

🎥Chapter 23🎥
"The Polyauthentic Spouse"
🎧UNRELIABLE FOLEY🎧

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Serializing UNIVERSAL EAR: The Curse of the Phantom Tympanum in episodes of several astonishing seconds at a time!

EXTRACT FROM THE SOURCE MEMOIRS:
“’- Then it’s true that you’re a real woman, and not a heritage object like the saints and the unicorns and – your husband out there?’ I gestured as specifically as I could to the mechanical Jacques Coeur ‘Echo’ in the world beyond the metastice.
‘I identify as polyauthentic.’
‘But you can’t be happy here,’ I urged her. ‘This is a fragment of a life. Nobody remembers you and these metastices are claustrophobic. You have a beautiful hat. Such a big hat for such a narrow dimension. Really, it’s an astonishing old hat. A hennin, I suppose you’d call it. It’s what we would call, in my time, a ‘whopper.’ And your eyes…’ I continued, unsure whether it was the metastice or those eyes that made the space so tight ‘- well, I just feel like you’re cramped in here. Take me to Ursinus, and I’ll rescue the lot of us from this cursed metastice. My brother will be waiting for me.’
‘Harley Byrne, you brave fool,’ she replied. ‘Don't you see that even if there were a way out of here, your brother and everyone else would already have forgotten you and all of the songs you’ve recorded? That’s half the point of the curse.’
I tried to blink, but it was impossible. I was a prisoner of the metastice.
Evidently the shock of losing my life’s work left me looking rather startled.
‘A closed mouth catches no flies,’ said Mrs. Coeur, prodding my jaw back to its default position. ‘That was one of my husband's mottoes. He was obsessed with mottoes. Had them carved everywhere. One motto each, that's my motto. Let's go, Babes, there's someone you should meet.’”

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