A surreal memoir detailing a 1980s organized crime syndicate that stole a 49-cent roller-skate wheel, triggering a wild interstate chase and psychological fallout.
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A surreal memoir detailing a 1980s organized crime syndicate that stole a 49-cent roller-skate wheel, triggering a wild interstate chase and psychological fallout.
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What if the laws of physics worked against you—but somehow, nobody got hurt? Mirror World is a place where everyone is left-handed, distances lie to your face, and the mathematics of collision screams for carnage that never comes. Oh, and the portals? Entirely transparent. Appear silver. Don’t think about it too hard.
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(A Tragedy in the Key of Bourbon Minor) There are bureaucratic errors that get corrected, and then there are people like Eliphas Plunk — clerical oddities of existence on which somebody, somewhere, stamped approved out of blind fatigue. He was the human equivalent of a form filed in triplicate and lost in the mail; a man who arrived at life without a manual and kept insisting the missing pages were art. He looked like a person who had once been […]