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272 (audio | forum) Power Armor: A Love Story by David Barr Kirtley
It was quite a party. The women wore gowns. The men wore tuxedos. Anthony Blair wore power armor. …
295 (audio | forum) Twenty Ways the Desert Could Kill You by Sarah Pinkster
1. A poisonous snake could bite you, and you could die.
2. You could prick your finger on a previously undiscovered poisonous cactus.
3. The cactus isn’t poisonous, and neither is the snake, but the snake’s venom is a powerful anti-coagulant. You could bleed to death from the place you were bitten and/or pricked. …
305 (audio | forum) Testimony Before an Emergency Session of The Naval Cephalopod Command by Seth Dickinson
The squid is a solipsistic psychopathic God with a lust for submarine hull and a mandate from Ronald Reagan branded on its hunting tentacles. It sweeps east from Iceland in the cold under thethermocline, alone in the dark, solitary lord of a solitary place. …