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Table of Contents
Cover: Santa Walkup – Stacy Horn
In the Dark – Alyce Lomax
Hollow Pines – Elsie Raymond
The Support Group Meets in Sandra’s Kitchen – Louise Worthington
The Note – J. Kelly
Load Bearing – Bruce Thierry Cheung
The Shallow End – William Hall
Memory of Mycelia – Cyrus Green
It Clucks with Abandon – Eric J. Guignard
Being Polite – Sunayna Pal
The Scarecrow – Avery Zappone
The M-Mode Trace – Raymond Brunell
Disruption – Brenna Monaghan Behel
Human Bottleneck – Jack Powers
A Fairy Tale – Kaitlyn Downing
Pallbearers – Eve Naden
Blossom-End Rot – RJ Aurand
Hourglass – Michael Takeda
The Town in the Sky – Ayush Pokheral
Dust in homes is composed of about 20–50% dead skin cells. – Kathie Quinn Yang
The End of Murder – Karin Marvel McRae
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