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    Embracing the “Best Present Days” of the Computer and Internet Conquest

    21 September 2025

    Sydney's Guard — Excerpt: We are soon releasing our debut EP. If it wasn’t for my savior machine and tool, I would, still, be in limbo.

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    The Heroines in Hadestown: Objects of Desire versus Agents of Affection

    17 August 2025

    Z. M. Asafzah — Excerpt: The story is a retelling of the “love story” of Orpheus and Eurydice, but entwines the Greek gods Hades and Persephone and their “love” story into its lore.

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    American Idiot and the Loss of My Parents

    13 July 2025

    Mark McConville — Excerpt: As I sat in a room of few things, I started to confide in a record, an album that was politically infused, a non-nonsense assessment of a country on its knees.

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    Mosh Pit

    9 March 2025

    Tim Frank — Excerpt: Humbled, it occurs to Mylene, nobody likes Tchaikovsky or even classical music—not anymore.

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    Ghosts on the Radio

    26 January 2025

    Damayanti Saha — Excerpt: I could feel Aishwarya Rai’s smile on one note, an eyebrow raised, and excitedly but mistakenly remembered Dola Re.

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