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The Dealer

Kenneth M. Kapp -
Col. Grigori Aleksandro Aleksandrovich, Retd. claimed his own labeled vodka was radical-free and one would never wake with a headache in the morning if...
Pages from a Diary

Breaking the Cycle

Elise Tyson -
  My health app started to crack on day 47 of my menstrual cycle. Since going off hormonal contraception (for good this time), I’ve started...
Fiction

Bhagwan Ji

Chirodip Naha -
All of them sat in a corner of Sashi Master’s living room as it rained heavily outside. In his modest house, the living room...
Pages from a Diary

The Door Handle

Jacqueline Abelson -
My father appeared in my doorway on the first Monday of the New Year to inform me that my grandfather had died. I responded...
Armchair Arbiters

The Architecture of Absence

Narjisse Moumna -
  “Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.”  —Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation.  “The way paranoia has of understanding anything is by imitating and embodying it....
Culture Couch

Zara Larsson Didn’t Steal My Nani’s Jewelry Box

Srijoni Nandi -
Somewhere in the internet's collective imagination lives a place called the Khia Asylum—a metaphorical purgatory named after the rapper only known for one song,...
Restless Cases

The Missing Cat Caper

Craig Inanen -
I’m Max Callahan, P.I. That stands for Private Investigator if you’re not hip to the detective game like me. You might be more familiar...
Fiction and Poetry

Moros and Cassandra

S. N. Ara -
Moros’ corporeal form is an awkward tangle of too-long limbs and too-narrow hips, neither of which ease his drive through the congested streets of...
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Mr and Mrs Moody Return: Intelligence, Artificial and Otherwise

ALMA Staff -
"MONA!" bellowed Maverick Moody, on an otherwise tranquil Tuesday morning. "MONA! The children have sent something. I think it's a bomb." Mrs Moody shuffled in...
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Where’s My Malcolm X?

Govind Dhar -
When Zohran Mamdani, the first brown mayor of New York, was close to the end of his mayoral election campaign in November 2025, he...
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