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Table of Contents | 1 September 2025
Fiction
The Heartbreak Hotel on Plutonic Planet 
By: Carolyn Zhao
I ended up on Pluto on the night of my nineteenth birthday, after breaking my own stupid heart. It wasn’t even over anything important.
Poetry
Graft Versus Host 
By: S. Chaudhuri-Perelló
Violet-stippled cells charge through the bloodstream Attack the invaders!
Critical Friends, Podcasts
Critical Friends Episode 15: On Time-Pass 
By: Dan Hartland
By: Sneha Pathak
By: Tansy Gardam
Dan Hartland is joined by Sneha Pathak and Tansy Gardam to discuss the kinds of text which many don’t find worthy of criticism at all.
Reviews
Monday: Don’t Sleep with the Dead by Nghi Vo 
By: Jenny Hamilton
Wednesday: If the Stars Are Lit by Sara K. Ellis 
By: Redfern Jon Barrett
Friday: Supergiants by Kyle Flemmer 
By: Dawn Macdonald
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