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ISSUE #9 IS HERE!

So much work and love has been put into Issue #9, our special Doubles Issue which features two beautiful novellas on polar ends of the same fantastical aesthetic spectrum. These stories speak to each other in interesting ways, playing on themes of love and devotion, and how those feelings become distorted by the nature of time. For this issue, we took inspiration from a French bookbinding method called tête-bêche ("head to tail") binding. Whichever way you hold it, you'll be looking at the front of one of the novellas, upside down to the other and eventually meeting in the middle. So fun!

In "Missing Ange" by Erica Cheng, ambitious engineering student Wes is kidnapped and taken to the future by Lyra, a time traveler desperate to solve the mystery of her brother Ange’s disappearance, having supposedly died in a lab accident related to the invention of time travel. A mystery unfolds, with Ange at the center of everything.  

In "Adelina and the Bug Parties" by Allison Stalberg, Lu the luna moth and Adelina the faery seamstress fall in love at a praying mantis wedding. They attend all kinds of bug parties, from termite birthdays to spider funerals. During and between the parties, Adelina learns how to cherish the most fleeting of moments as her low-stakes life meets the high stakes of the insect kingdom in this absurdist but poignant fairytale.

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