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Reverse-Gentrification of the Literary World

Akashic Books

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Category: Original Fiction

“Machine” by Ahsan Butt

M watched himself wake in a mirror. His hair was gone and electrodes circled his skull, their wires stripped and dangling like witch hair . . .

“The First Blow” by Tom Andes

I pass Elaine the banana bread. Oh, I’m sure she’s had a trying week, I tell her, clucking in sympathy, listening like the good friend I am . . .