《No Mosquito is a God》作者： - Jon Hansen【EPUB】

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Lone Star Stories Speculative Fiction and Poetry No Mosquito is a God by Jon Hansen No mosquito is a god, so no god should be a mosquito. I recite this semi-Zen koan to myself as the doctors circle me as if on leashes. If only. Then I could release them, let them run back to their peer-reviewed journals and double-blind scientific testing, to their empirical world where everything makes sense. A nurse swoops into their orbit, brandishing a pair of metal shears. They gleam like a magic sword under the ER lights. For a moment I think she's the hero taking matters into her own hands (like heroes often do), but instead she fits them into my pants cuff and starts cutting. Snip, snip, snip, all the way up the seam. In moments I'm lying in my altogether. Embarrassment fills me, but only the