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	<description>No Poem Is the Only Poem. No Story Is the Only Story. No Kings.</description>
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		<title>On Reading Books</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dennis Haritou]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 21:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What I learned most from reading books was that "I needed to read more books". ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Tears of the Tollund Man &#8211; Editor&#8217;s Pick</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Keegan Grau]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[“Right, yes. It’s assumed the Tollund Man was a human sacrifice, rather than an executed criminal or disliked member of Scandinavia. The way he was found—holding himself, eyes and mouth closed—imply a sanctity to his death. Now, what’s interesting is that his body was so perfectly preserved that even his last meal was left intact. A porridge, made of barley, flax, and seeds, along with some fish and—”]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Gay Jesus; Grief is a Vulture; Rebirth: A Simple Man’s Guide; Once More &#8211; Editor&#8217;s Pick</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Konrad Ehresman Jr.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2025 02:52:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I was born a matchhead
and baptized a sinner

Sunday sermons taught fear of flames,
no mention that cold burns just the same...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Golden State &#8211; Editor&#8217;s Pick</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[James Hollwig]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[California in the year 2075 offers the intrepid traveler a cornucopia of sad marvels, unnerving grotesqueries, and outright horrors. From the sea-scoured coastline, which, due to hurricane, typhoon and tsunami, has been eroded inland an average of 22 miles; to the mad and anarchic self-governing homeless encampment of Greater Los Angeles; to the scorched and moribund Redwood Forest; to the eerily abandoned ghost town of San Francisco; to the desiccated vestiges of America’s once-rich farmland; to the scalding wastes of The Inland Empire – California is truly an adventure tourist’s Eden.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Glass Spiders &#8211; Editor&#8217;s Pick</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Richard Ankers]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Nov 2024 14:41:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It begins with a splintering intersection of time and reality. The world shatters, seeks to cobweb, to consume the glass coffin that encases and confines. I inhale and hold and pray, but forget what I’m praying for? The sensation stalls like a pinched vein unable to release the life-giving blood within. But it hasn’t stopped. Not really.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Postmortem of a Fish &#8211; Editor&#8217;s Pick</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nayara Noor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2024 11:22:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I saw god at the dentist’s, splattered on the chair– a discarded fish head. Jaw forced open, eyes closed shut.]]></description>
		
		
		
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