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Thus a contributor is given a short story to translate, which in turn is translated into another language by a. Inside issue 53 youll uncover a medically inexplicable hunger for forks, a world of unclothed single women, a bevy of dead dads infesting a city, a mystical power within the dismembered torso of a mummified bishop, and oh so much more. You can buy all of these things from their online store. For more information on that call for submission, select the queer fiction form below.
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