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“Her sandwich – mine now – is sloppily assembled, the melted cheddar thick with oil like a handsome man’s mucus. I eat without chewing much.”

Sascha Belle Nastasi is an actor who writes short fiction. She dislikes tomatoes, and almost attended New York University.

ANOTHER CUSTOMER originally appeared on the XRAY website: https://xraylitmag.com/another-customer-by-sascha-belle-nastasi/fiction/⁠https://xraylitmag.com/another-customer-by-sascha-belle-nastasi/fiction/⁠

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"She has a scar that trails down her left eye, back to her left ear. The scar looks like one tear crying. Sometimes, lightning strikes twice."

Ian Crutcher Castillo is a writer living in Brooklyn and sometimes Madrid. He can be found online @_ian_castillo.

I AM MARKED SAFE originally appeared on the XRAY website: https://xraylitmag.com/i-am-marked-safe-by-ian-crutcher-castillo/fiction/

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“In movies, the end of the world makes everyone care about the right things, right when the right things are about to be gone. Not me. I want my money.”

THE LIST by Annie Delmedico originally appeared on the XRAY website: ⁠https://xraylitmag.com/the-list-by-annie-delmedico/fiction/⁠

Annie Delmedico is a writer from North Carolina. She is currently an MFA candidate at The University of California at Davis, where she also teaches creative writing and enjoys the bike lanes.

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“My 7th grade English teacher was just three toddlers stacked on top of each other. The middle toddler googled every question we asked on an iPhone. You could see it through his shirt, star-bright.”

MJ McGinn received his MFA from Adelphi University and was a VCCA resident in 2019. His work has been named to the Wigleaf 50 best very short stories and has previously appeared in the Guernica/PEN flash series, New Flash Fiction Review, Firewords, Bridge Eight, and elsewhere. He lives and teaches in Philadelphia.

WEIRD ENOUGH TO BE DANGEROUS by MJ McGinn first appeared on the XRAY website: ⁠https://xraylitmag.com/weird-enough-to-be-dangerous-by-mj-mcginn/fiction/⁠

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“The world felt like something awful impending. June gloom had set in early; Mercury was back in retrograde. Everyone was jittery, uncertain, a little gun shy.”

Nick Plett lives and writes in Los Angeles, CA. His work has appeared in Forever Magazine as well in several defunct or much harder to find online publications.

LOVE LETTER by Nick Plett originally appeared on the XRAY website: https://xraylitmag.com/love-letter-by-nick-plett/fiction/

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