The astrologer retired and moved somewhere flat.
He said he needed to stop knowing what was coming.
His neighbors found him pleasant.
His neighbors found him standing in the yard at 3 a.m. looking at nothing.
He was looking at nothing with tremendous precision.
J.M.C. Kane is a writer and environmental attorney in New Orleans. Kane is the author of Quiet Brilliance: What Employers Miss About Neurodivergent Talent and How to See It (CollectiveInk U.K.), a celebrated nonfiction work on cognitive patterning and inclusion in the workplace. His prose work has appeared in Eleventh Hour Literary, Redivider, Minnesota Review, New Ohio Review, Plough, Dappled Things, and others.
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