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Editorial

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Welcome to the twentieth issue of Baffling magazine.

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Best Face Forward

by Nigel Faustino

“This face is all wrong, and Althea has barely set it flat before she begins the agony of cutting it right back off.”

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by Divya Kernan

“When the boy seaman looks at me across the deck, the warmth of his gaze burns between my thighs.”

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by Megan Baffoe

“I cannot forget meeting the Rain Woman.”

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by Morgan Wilson

“1. How to do your own first aid, because hospital isn’t an option, even outside of full moons. “

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by Gillian Knox

“We’ve always traveled in packs. Us fair ones.”

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by Joe Koch

“Hooves clattered high over the fighters’ heads and then hit the ground like a thunderclap.”

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by Caro Jansen

“Another house, another husband opening the door.”

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by Avra Margariti

“Rumpelstiltskin miscarries yet another baby girl—and they are always girls.”