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The Skin on the Coffee

by Elara Voss

A security guard and his sister share a plywood booth, cold coffee, and a secret the algorithm already knows. Something has to give.


The Skin on the Coffee

By 6:47 the coffee had a skin on it, and neither of them had touched the thing that happened at 5:40.

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