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By Orion Shade

The House Specialty

Mara stopped beneath the restaurant’s gold-lettered awning and stared through the tall glass doors. “We’re actually here,” she whispered, smoothing the front of her dark green dress for the third time.

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By Orion Shade

A Name Fit for Trouble

The shipwright led the way beneath the quarterdeck with one hand raised to the beams, as though he had hung every timber himself and expected the captain to admire each nail.

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By Aria Quill

Taking the Ordinary Too Far

Absurdist humor does not always begin with something wildly impossible. Sometimes it begins with one ordinary part of life being made just a little too unreasonable.

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