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By D. A. Powell”because also the god of medicine also / the god who killed every boy he loved / which may have only been one. one good one.”
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The Art of Fiction No. 267
By Ludmilla Petrushevskaya“Humor doesn’t cut it, or romance, or lyricism—no, no, no. Only terror works.”
