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Editorial

by Craig L. Gidney

Welcome to the ninth issue of Baffling Magazine.

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The Blade, The Hammer

by Lina Rather

"I'm sorry about your aunt," Mia said.

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by Marisca Pichette

To the woman who braids kelp at the bottom of the sea:

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by E. Catherine Tobler

A trail of nine freckles curls down the shadow of your spine…

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by Portia Elan

Someone’s great-aunt dies.

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by K.S. Walker

It has been three weeks, six days and seven hours since Georgia disappeared through the door.

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by Nikolas Sky

The thing in the garden never was a magnolia tree.

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by Alice Pow

The golf cart buckles as I pull off the asphalt and onto dead grass.

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by Tamara Jerée

Arcane grips my horn implants, maintaining eye contact…

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by December Cuccaro

My mother said never go near men; they only want you for your coat.