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Inferno is the far end of the spectrum: intimacy rendered completely, with nothing withheld except cliché. Written with the same care as everything else we publish — just with the lights on.

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The Right to Be Afraid

by M. Coronado

**What He Told Me First** My brother tells me everything twice, so I have heard…

A Ukrainian exile in a 3am laundromat. A thermostat war. A coat that belongs to the wrong man. His sister, watching from Kyiv, finally understands what he's really been afraid of.

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Recalculating

by Maraschino House

The First Recount (Sarah) The algorithm gave us seventy-one percent, and Marcus…

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The Desk Was Four Inches Off

by Catherine Morrow

**The Desk Was Four Inches Off** Here's the part she left out when she told me…

A divorced port manager finds phantom containers in her ex-husband's files — and discovers what he built them for. Newark noir about the ledgers we keep for people we're supposed to be done loving.

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