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observations of a personality store

lillie e. franks

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  1. No one browses at the personality store

  2. They all come in, ask to see the black binder with rings so large it sits at an angle. They go through each page in the front room with the uncomfortable blue chair, pausing at every person they could be, and they try to look like they’re browsing but they never are. 

a better deal

ryan c. bradley

A Better Deal artwork

The three men were chained together as they shuffled up the steps to the gallows. Their ankles were bleeding from the mile they’d walked shackled. Magda imagined the metal would be cold against their skin with the gray winter sky glowering down ...

whatever
the gig is,
i want it

sasha brown

Whatever the Gig, I'll Take it artwork

I’m sorry I’m late, I know you have to charge me for the full session. I had a thing that went long. Yeah, I guess an acting thing? I don’t know, it was weird. You don’t want to hear about my fucked up acting stuff. It was fuckin weird, though.

the ether

vivian chou

The Ether artwork

You know it’s a bad sign when the AI tells you they want to quit. “If they didn’t own my NeuriNetwork, Simone,” Babar says, “I’d be outta here so fast.” He leans over the hospital bed railing and connects probes to Jenny’s shaved head with his titanium hands ...

portia

keshe chow

Portia artwork

In a quiet street in downtown suburbia, a row of factories lines one side, orange tri-fold doors shuttered fast. The conjoined buildings are all made of identical beige bricks, their sawtooth roofs like a row of teeth. It’s inside one of the factories that I stand, surrounded by boxes, my hands encrusted with dirt ...

the world is yours

andrew najberg

The World is Yours artwork

My breath clouds over the mic in the comms console. Environmental can no longer maintain a high enough temperature to prevent condensation. The panel is engineered to be hermetically sealed, but as the exterior shielding systems waver, the composite metals and plastics expand and contract minutely ...

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