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The key attribute of the city will be its silence. Cubes within cubes will be constructed of absorbent material, rendering biological machinations audible. Within the interior cubes will be uniform grids to house the inhabitants. The purpose of the sleepers will be to exist until called upon. All will slumber and all will stay quiet. Residents of the city will have no concern for the past, present, nor future.



Alyssa Lo is a poet and writer exploring the speculative as a way to understand the present. Originally from Hawai’i, Alyssa is now based in New York.
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16 Jun 2025

When I met the young Mr Turing, I had not yet ascended as Autumn’s King. Nowadays it has become fashionable for the sons and daughters of the lesser fey gentry to improve their position in the shifting hierarchy of the Courts by virtue of intrigue, scandal, and the naked blade; but in those times, it was the custom to advance one’s position through the collection of human bagatelles.
When women cross the border, / coyotes get rooms at motels.
With their noses shaped like rockets and ancient vacuum cleaners
By: Ariel Marken Jack
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