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Witch's Brew
The Witch's Brew The shop wasn't there yesterday. Ethan has walked past that stretch of sidewalk a hundred times: the vape store, the dead Blockbuster, the empty gap between them. Tonight the gap has a door, and the door is open, warm light spilling onto the concrete. A hand-pain…
The critic at table six
Spice warning.Recipe for Disaster is a contemporary romance, and Part 3 has an explicit, open-door love scene. Parts 1 and 2 are a slow burn. If explicit content isn't for you, Part 2 ends on a clean line and you can stop there. Part 3 carries its own warning at the top. Sloane M…
Naming as Theme
A few episodes ago, I told you about a moment in a short story I wrote called “Signal Zero.” A military sergeant gets ambushed by an alien intelligence — and inside that ambush, the system gives him a designation. It calls him Sentinel. And next to Sentinel, a number: Frame: Seve…
Signal Zero
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