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    The Five Lost Senses of Carl
    The Five Lost Senses of Carl
    The Five Lost Senses of Carl
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    The Five Lost Senses of Carl

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    Something is happening to Carl. His eyes, his hearing, his smell...they all seem to be fading away. It could be his diet. It could be something entirely different.

    Find out what happens to Carl in this chapbook by Mel Bosworth & Christy Crutchfield.

    Mel Bosworth is the author of the fiction chapbook When The Cats Razzed The Chickens (Folded Word Press, 2009), the novella Grease Stains, Kismet and Maternal Wisdom (Brown Paper Publishing, 2010) and the novel Freight (Folded Word Press, 2011). His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in elimae, PANK, Per Contra, Wigleaf, BLIP Magazine, Annalemma, decomP, Dark Sky Magazine, >kill author, Emprise Review, and Night Train among others. Mel lives, breathes, writes and works in Western Massachusetts.

    Christy Crutchfield writes and teaches in Western Massachusetts. her works have appeared in Mississippi Review online, Everyday Genius, PANK, the Goodman Project and Wigfleaf, among others. She is the Fiction Editor for Dark Sky Magazine. She blogs about writing and other monsters at thehopelessmonster.blogspot.com.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDeckfight Press
    Release dateOct 17, 2011
    ISBN9781466030961
    The Five Lost Senses of Carl
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      The Five Lost Senses of Carl - Deckfight Press

      The Five Lost Senses of Carl

      by Mel Bosworth & Christy Crutchfield

      Published by Deckfight Press at Smashwords

      Copyright 2011 Mel Bosworth & Christy Crutchfield

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      A PDF Edition with full artwork is also available at deckfightpress.tumblr.com

      Discover other titles by Deckfight Press at Smashwords.com & deckfightpress.tumblr.com

      Find Mel Bosworth @ www.melbosworth.com

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      When Carl Gave Up His Sense of Taste

      He stocked the pantry with bulgur wheat, yogurt, and whole soy. He’d already bid farewell to his brownies, scraped the crumbs from the corners of his mouth. Carl was prepared for a life of responsibility and health, fueled by hunger, not by cravings. Fueled by fuel, which, he’d been reminded on countless occasions by Liz, was what she wished food could be. 

      Carl told her she was just being weak. Giving up taste couldn’t be that hard. Liz told Carl his head was hard. Some people just can’t stand to be wrong.

      Carl had considered every possibility. A diet of raw foods would not be possible because he

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