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Fictile Feelings (Poetry Special, October 2025)

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  • Culture - Film/TV - Humour - Weekly Features

    Franklin is the Big Salad

    17 November 2025

    Catherine Rossi — Excerpt: I was exactly like George when he bought a big salad for Elaine then became irate when Elaine thanked someone else.

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  • Culture - Humour - Weekly Features - Wildlife

    Man Vs. Wild

    17 November 2025

    Mike Nagel — Excerpt: “Would a red panda make a good pet?” I ask Google two or three times a year.

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  • Craft - Weekly Features

    Unlikable Characters: Understanding the Appeal and Building Empathy

    16 November 2025

    Sabyasachi Roy — Excerpt: Unlikable characters are a breath of fresh, if slightly toxic, air, in a world full of flawless Instagram influencers and squeaky-clean heroes.

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  • Culture - Society - Weekly Features

    Gratitude Found Inside the Fence

    16 November 2025

    Kathleen Fullerton — Excerpt: Coffee brews in an old industrial pot, large upon the counter in this long open room optimistically called “the day room.”

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  • Culture - Travelogue - Weekly Features

    “GOING DOOLALLY!” — Memories of an Idyllic Childhood Vacation

    16 November 2025

    Saeed Ibrahim — Excerpt: The smell of fodder and hay wafted through the air as the train puffed into the quaint little Deolali Railway Station.

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Winter Weeklies

Edition 1, November 16: Saeed Ibrahim reminisces a trip to an Indian cantonment hill town in the early 60s, and Michael Smith’s early-90s Eastern Bloc adventures find him in Leningrad.

“GOING DOOLALLY!” — Memories of an Idyllic Childhood Vacation by Saeed Ibrahim

Drawing Back the Curtain: Russia 1991 & Eastern Europe 1992 (Part 2 – Leningrad) by Michael Smith

Edition 2, November 23: Sabyasachi Roy plumbs the depths of antagonists’ hearts, and Kathleen Fullerton finds humanity in the unlikeliest of places.

Unlikable Characters: Understanding the Appeal and Building Empathy by Sabyasachi Roy

Gratitude Found Inside the Fence by Kathleen Fullerton

Edition 3, November 30: Catherine Rossi commits unsung human acts like a beloved sitcom character, and Mike Nagel ponders the conjunction of humans and animals, trying to save the latter in the process.

Franklin is the Big Salad by Catherine Rossi

Man Vs. Wild by Mike Nagel

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Murals, guest-edited by François Bereaud

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Mike Nagel, Humour/Culture, Nov 30
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Sarah Das Gupta, Travel/Culture/Humour, Dec 7
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