Issue 5

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Scott Alexander Jones YOU KNOW THE DAY & WAY YOU WILL DIE The city, the season, the indivisible moment. It involves a train, a flood, a child. It involves the advent of penicillin. Or television.

Choose either definition of: SPAM. You remove one candle once a year, not on your birthday but in anticipation of the anniversary of your death. It's not so much mooncake as cheeseburger.

Cigarettes for candles. Hold your breath. Purse your lips. Make a wish.

If you'd like you can wish for a million wishes. Only you can't wish to live several lives concurrently.


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