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Long Distance Caller
Fiction: A man wanders outside to hear the secrets of the utility poles.
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Benjamin Bond West
Lefties
Fiction: You have to hand it to them.
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Cairo Smith
Dark Cities (SNES): An Oral History
Fiction: A retrospective on the obsessive development of a forgotten game.
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Aaron Sunshine
Criers and Kingmakers
A response to Ross Barkan's "The End of Prestige" on how it's never been about the prizes.
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Rhyme Henry Davis
The End of Prestige
Into the blue again, after the money's gone.
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Ross Barkan

April 2025

Bikesport
Fiction: A highly surreal competition in the woods.
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Matt Payne
The Palisade
Fiction: A man and a woman find a place outside time.
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Cairo Smith
Print Release: Cognitorisk
Celebrate our authors and buy our first physical collection on Amazon.
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Cairo Smith
You'd Hate Van Gogh
Fighting the feeling you'd be worth more dead as an artist.
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Maren English
2064
Fiction: An airing of grievances by a 21st-century villain.
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John Leahy
Soiled
Fiction: A new diet trend and the people going all-in.
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Tom Barrie

March 2025

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