Tag: Issue 64
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A Woman of Means
by James Edward O’Brien in Issue 64, May 2017 “No one’s broken into the athenaeum and made it out breathing. Nobody. Besides, those days are behind me,” he explained. “Bad knees.” The woman rolled an amethyst monocle between her fingers. She plugged the incandescent lens in her eye and studied the pictograms adorning Shanley’s forearms. “You look like…
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Glass Houses
by Melanie Smith in Issue 64, May 2017 The sun’s light fell and dripped, yolk-like, onto the glass spires and faceted crystal domes of the Second City, pooling in golden puddles on the polished eaves of the great sprawl. The city stretched from the shallows of the Night Desert in the east to the Bay…