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    Timing

    18 May 2025

    Garrett Berberich — Excerpt: SMILE! You are currently in a Private View Zone and are being Timed. Taking in views in this Zone will require compensation after the 90-second mark.

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    Flower

    4 May 2025

    Zary Fekete — Excerpt: Once, on a Saturday, Istvan took the tram to its end stop and he wandered up and down the streets of small houses, not to find her, not exactly, but to imagine.

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    Richie Jay

    4 May 2025

    Muheez Olawale — Excerpt: After Jimi garbs himself in the chosen clothes and ornaments, he splashes some cologne all over him. Looking expensive equals zero if he doesn’t smell expensive.

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    ‘Danfo’ and ‘Ode to a Scaly Skin’

    20 April 2025

    Titilayo Matiku — Excerpt: Doesn't Mango like rice? I have not seen any roach lately so he needs to eat whatever is available.

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    The curious case of Tim Cranshaw and all the people that were hurt, maimed, or mildly inconvenienced by it

    20 April 2025

    Nenad Pavlovic — Excerpt: It took three fire brigades exactly seven days to put out the fire at Acacia No. 9.

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