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      <image:title>Hot Air Henry - “words can’t quite capture the overwhelming isolation of dysphoria. Blood calcifies into lead; a black hole swallows your chest; treasured memories fade to dusk and curses circle like sharks around the shell you no longer recognize as yours. Words rarely help, either. What language could reach you, anyway, when you’ve drifted so far into the abyss?” - Immersive Atlanta</image:title>
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      <image:title>Deantoni Parks + Chris Hunt - LIGHTLIKE is an intentionally improvised melding of textural, textual, percussive, olfactive and optical. PARKS wields fragmented and skittering patterns to slice new topographies across and within. In order to be present we must commit to the density of the space. HUNT employs a single lyra8 to produce stark rhythmic undulations that ebb in and out of a standard time assumption. Detaching the ear from its temporal shell allows an unfolding, a path.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Lydia Falls - Beneath The Heavy - The highly personal debut poetry collection from lydia falls. This is our history. Where You Left ME. Dead Lost Habits. Candy Hearts. Art / in a forest. Through ExistEnce. Until I Vanish. Dangling At The Apex. An Offering. Birdsong. Lullaby. Departure. Explorations of family dynamics, childhood, past vs the present, triangles found in nature’s structures. Featuring illustrations by James Zucco</image:title>
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      <image:title>Charlene Elsby - MUSOS - Of course, I loved Laura.. I loved her my whole life. At least, as much of it as I can remember.. And I guess, then, only most of it.. But I loved her. And I didn’t kill her.. Don’t get me wrong, I killed that girl.. It wasn’t Laura.. The best that I can gather is, the best that II imagine is, the best that I can reason is, that when, that thing, I did do it, Laura died.</image:title>
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      <image:title>B. Sonenreich - You're Only Crazy If You Answer - As if performing open heart surgery on herself, B. Sonenreich excavates the most personal memories of loss. Inhale grief and exhale gratitude in twenty-three poems that encompass what caring might look like in its many forms. And when you get a message from your ex lover, remember: You’re Only Crazy If You Answer.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Snatch Wylden - GUMMO Part 2 - Despite the title, this piece has nothing to do with Harmony Korine or his 1997 film, other than a couple of mentions within the text and some threads of influence. This is an anthology of deconstructed “autopsychopathy,” further smeared by a lens of surreality and despair.</image:title>
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      <image:title>David Kuhnlein - Die Closer To Me - David Kuhnlein's debut novella-in-stories Die Closer to Me follows Jo as she cares for her mother on planet Süskind — Earth's failed disability experiment. Along the way we meet a suicidal construction worker, a waitress who secretly eats her tip money, a jaded poet, a militant monk named Bhikkhu Brendan Fraser, and a small blue hypnotist named Bath.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Maria Sea Channels - The Cult Leader - The Cult Leader is about Maria, a 29-year-old woman who "sees through the pandemonium of COVID-19" and decides to follow her boyfriend around Eastern Europe in the thick of the pandemic. Disillusioned and bored with her boyfriend's hypocritical corporate BLM outlook she decides to leave him and moves to Southwest Florida to spread awareness about human trafficking for Americorps. She falls in love with an aspiring cult leader named Cash Swanson and helps him start a cult based on red pilling the masses.</image:title>
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      <image:title>VANTABLACK - Vantablack is the sonic cross-frequency brainchild of Chris Kelso, Nick Hudson, and Stuart Dahlquist. It is dedicated to the invisible obstacle within all of us. An album for the amputated. featuring the voices of Elle Nash, Professor Timothy Jarvis, Graham Rae, and Brian Evenson.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Charlene Elsby - Poor Damned Souls - Love, suspicion, necrosis…  The ticking of The Money Store's 15-minute safe, the hum of fluorescents over gray carpet, the afterimage of a browser window, the weight of someone else's breath in your throat. What is a betrayal and how far can it go?  Does it count if you cheat with a dead girl? Poor Damned Souls is a drowning that never ends, a bleak and violent look into the psychological spiral of a woman convinced her partner is cheating when he's actually killing, and her subsequent deep dive into murder and the circumstances that lead there.</image:title>
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