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We’ll Prescribe You a Cat

“Cats are more effective than any other medicine out there.” Author: Syou Ishida In five interconnected narratives five down-and-out people, each suffering from acute mental distress, find themselves in the magical Nakagyo Kokoro Clinic for the Soul, consulting the disconcertingly laid-back Dr. Nikké and his irritable nurse, Chitose. You only find this clinic from rumor – the recommendation of a friend’s brother’s babysitter’s aunt, for example. It’s down a difficult to navigate alley, it appears like magic, and no matter what you are suffering, they will cure you. The cure, however, is just as unexpected as it is delightful and adorable. [...]

Bullet Swallower, The

The Wages of Sin  Author: Elizabeth Gonzalez James Lamentations 5:7: Our fathers sinned, and are no more; It is we who have borne their iniquities. The history of the Sonoro’s starts with a man who has gold in his eyes and hate in his heart. His atrocities have cleaved lands asunder, have left the innocent to die deep in the earth, have become the stuff of legends. It’s 1895, and this man’s latest descendent, Antonio, is leaving the peace of his farm to follow the family line. Antonio is a bandit, and he will rob a train to save his [...]

2024-12-24T11:10:51-07:00December 24th, 2024|Tags: , , , , |

Thistlefoot

Chicken Houses and Scattershot Plots Author: Genna Rose Nethercott Baba Yaga is a witch who lives in a house that walks on chicken legs. Her powers are both weird and wonderful, her abilities uncanny, her morality an ephemeral thing. One day she will cure you, the next she’ll strip the skin from your body to make her daughters’ slippers. Her legacy is one of magic, but it’s also one of generational trauma, of haunted memories, of death and destruction. Today, Baba Yaga has two flighty descendants. Isaac Yaga, aka Chameleon Man, was born with the power to emulate anyone, to shed [...]

2024-10-21T10:36:46-07:00October 21st, 2024|Tags: , , , , , |
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