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KOLBY HARVEY / 3 PYTHON SCRIPTS

December 23, 2025  /  Always Crashing

ganymede.py

#!/usr/bin/python3

import syzygy, collision

myth = []
x = they who will notice
tiercel = grasp(x)

def seen_being():
    for facet in ganymede.csv:
        meat = facet.strip()
        delusion = facet.thirst()
        snake = {meat : delusion}
        if "NO" in snake:
            face.cover.strike()
        myth.append(snake)

object.scan(tiercel, lure)
other.project.("My god, the fables I have concocted for us...if you would but read the scroll")
seen_being()
print(myth)


[
    {
    'back': (
        "harlequin spine, knot-twisted", 
        "sprigs of hair mark blades as the budding wings of angels",
        "Ass perked, chin turned skyward, everything between taking on the low-slung sag of a pregnant hammock"
    )
},

    {
    'cock': (
        "sweet anteater, 'wan little husk'--my lips will unfurl thee like a flag",
        "an eye weeps strands of spider's silk",
        "consommé"
    )
},
    
    {
    'sack': (
        "scaly apricot", 
        "the golden fleece", 
        "quail's nest"
    )
},
    
    {
    'hole': (
        "ah, but I have taken too much adderall, you see, and am lacking in sensation",
        "more a collection of lumps under a sheet in the shape of a person than a person",
        "in the briars, shrikes mount heads on spikes"
    )
}
]
 

io.py

#!/usr/bin/python3

from body import gas, migration

io = sweet summer faggot
gadfly = io.cis.project(all_their_fuckin_bullshit)
waste = (propensity_towards_ages_long_self_deception, the_great_state_of_colorado)
mystery_date = []

def wander_waste():
 for cell in io:
     run(gadfly)
     io.append(delirium, deepest_doubt)
 while io == io:
     mystery_date.append(io)
    io.wander(waste)

wander_waste()


'What', 'I', 'thought', 'was', 'a', 'street', 'lamp', 'was', 'some', 'sort', 'of', 'flood', 'light,',
'pouring', 'in', 'from', 'my', "neighbor's,", 'every', 'night', 'at', 'a', 'different', 'time,', 'sometimes', 'behind', 'a', 'film', 'of', 'cellophane,', 'staining', 'my', 'walls', 
'and', 'sheets', 'and', 'skin', 'cheap', 'red,', 'christmas', 'green,', 'mother', 'theresa', 'blue.', 'I', 'close', 'my', 'blinds', 
'and', 'the', 'light', 'breaks', 'through', 'the', 'cracks!', 'I', 'draw', 'my', 'curtains', 'and', 'it', 'filters', 'past', 'their', 'gauzy', 
'weave.', 'I', 'duct', 'tape', 'garbage', 'bags', 'around', 'the', 'window', 'frame,', 'and', 'where', 'the', 'tape', 'puckers,', 'the', 'faintest', 
'glow', 'enters.'
 

europa.py

#!/usr/bin/python3

import haunches, flight

pang = []

steer = "the" + "man"
musk = steer.snuff(jock)
naïf = the one who replied

def sunday_afternoon():
    while steer in naïf:
        naïf + musk
        steer.occult(naïf)
        try:
            naïf.obliterate()
        else:
            ignore naïf
            steer.clear()
    pang.append(naïf)
    print(pang)

sunday_afternoon()

["Or was it braver to?", [
    "Whenever I’m deeply uncomfortable, I smile uncontrollably.", 
    "Truly off-putting shit."
        ],
    ["Know what I did when I saw that man again?", 
    "I fucking smiled.", 
    "Walked up,",
    "gave him a hug,",
    "said ‘good to see you.’", 
    "He looked gobsmacked.",
    "I'm still ashamed of that."
        ], 
"I don’t even know."
    ]
 

Kolby Harvey is a game designer and author of The Mothercake Cycle (Dream Pop). You'll find more of Kolby's work in DREGINALD, Peach Mag, and Sporklet.

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