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SEPTEMBER 2023, SHORT STORY, 2900 WORDS Prefer to read this as an EPUB or PDF? Join our Patreon and instantly download issue 29: The house is not a house. And yet, I am a guest, a knowledge that rests in my mind with the certainty of a swift pen stroke or a happy smile. The
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SEPTEMBER 2023, SHORT STORY, 4200 WORDS Prefer to read this as an EPUB or PDF? Join our Patreon and instantly download issue 29: Avram Mordecai sits shiva for his dead sister Tamar with only Tamar herself in attendance. The memorial yahrzeit candle of remembrance burns auburn, lurid shadows waltzing upon Tamar’s face. Avram sits on
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