Story: Casting by Matt Shaner

I knew there would be trouble, of course, the minute I realised the wind was blowing backwards. How I quite ended up in this spot I have no idea. I can only assume the maps were ironic.
Here is this week’s story.
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Casting
By Matt Shaner
 
 
 
My father and I flew into Dallas/Fort Worth airport in late December. Snow [...]

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Story: A Scene from Cafe Retro by Peter M. Ball

Is there anything quite like a cafe? No. Cafes are the epicentre of good and evil, the place where all the best and worst of humanity combines into a grotesque quiche of doom, with sprinkles of love. It’s only fitting that, during our short reign, we at DVS have published not one but perhaps several [...]

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Story: When I Was Thirteen I Ate My City… by Trent Jamieson

On the table there is a wooden pig. No matter what happens it keeps smiling. What does it know?
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When I was Thirteen I Ate My City
Trent Jamieson
 
 
When I was thirteen I ate my city. I was extremely tall for my age. I had a serious face and a much more dreadfully serious hunger. Brisbane was [...]

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Story: Piranhas, Pickle Joe, and Me… by Melissa Yuan-Innes

I’m too sick to think of something witty to say about this story… so you’ll have to make do with my half-brother Carlson who calls it “twice the piranhas for only half the pickles”… we all know what he means by that right?
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Piranhas, Pickle Joe, and Me
Melissa Yuan-Innes
 
 
My best friend is a pickle.
 
By that, I [...]

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Story: Eat My Stardust… by Sarah Totton

This story has a character called Zif the magic beaver. How could you not buy a story with a character called Zif the magic beaver? No really.
Now behold its mystery!!
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Eat My Stardust
Sarah Totton
 
 
 
Zif the magic beaver crawled out of the dam he’d burrowed in the duvet. He gazed at the 4-D polychromatic poster on the [...]

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