[Been a Long Winter Already//issue no1.1]

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[lead] The Order of Virility//Curtis White

/There was something emblematic about that scene. For there were two lurid silhouettes: one, the womanish boy moving with those disturbing gestures behind the canvas of our wagon; two, the essence of virility, Vincent Taylor, struggling toward the boy—enraptured, emboldened—his figure canting weirdly away from his missing limb./
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On December 25, it appeared in the sky...

[serial] Clouds//Sumanth Prabhaker

/Let me try to break it down for you. He’s up on the clouds. Or he was. His brown suit probably on some lawn in Italy. Where does all of this leave his fiancé? Ohio? In the home they bought together? On a plane, in the window seat?/>>>>>Pt. I >>II >>>III >>>>IV >>>>>V
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There was no knowing what to call it...

[world-building] from Fancy//Jeremy M. Davies

/Waking on the morning of the 1st August 1964 I suddenly became aware of the fact that I had dreamed the complete course of this and other systems and to an incredibly detailed degree./
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Sphynx-Form Burn//Nathan Prince

/According to popular tabloid theories the Great Sphynx is either 1. eternal or 2. created from a greater power, an older power, probably distinguishable to humans as advanced species with technology and science, art and love. If so then the Sphynx has simply been rediscovered by countless generations and not, as the records show, constructed under the great King Khafre in the Fourth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom, ancient Egypt, at Giza, about 4,600 years ago (math?), 2,600 B.C.E./[PENDING]

The Mommy-Baby Bond//A D Jameson

/They left the sinks on, running, filling, the water blasting, the sinks overflowing, then threw whole rolls of TP in the toilets. They crapped in the sinks. All the while, the whole time, one of the doctors flickered the overhead lights, giggling and snickering, laughing at the grotesquerie in strobe./
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An Arkadin Is//The Arkadin Group

/Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, unlooked-for, unexpected, and inexplicable./[PENDING]

So all involved were persuaded not to try...

[tag team] Stinkbug//Kristin Boryca Kozlowski
& Sutherland Douglass

/He waited impatiently for her to remove the apron, waited for her to hear Julio ring her from upstairs so she would leave like on schedule (leaving open the window for him). And once she did he would find his way to revel in it—he would wrench her apron from its high hook and plunge his nose unapologetically in./[PENDING]

[close readings & intermediaries]
a gloss on this site via work existing before and since

001. The Lost Highway/Gozu Suite
002. The Adolescence of Ichi the Killer
003. The Man Who Was Thursday as Nightmare
004. The Patrick McGoohan Drift
005. Ritual Nothing

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