Through the Virgin Mirror

N.S. Simko
20 min readMay 6, 2024

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a short story feat. ‘Thom Pope’

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It’s a shame detective Holmes lived and died before the synthesis of lysergic acid diethylamide. What wonders could have been unlocked if he had insight into the breath of an active world. Had he another twenty years, I harbor no doubt he would’ve gained the recipe and had his burners bubbling with ergotamine tartrate. Though it’s a tricky trend for the hophead, trading tourniquet for…

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N.S. Simko

Poetry, prose, short stories, and experimentations. Whatever distracts me from working on my novel.