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Editorial

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Welcome to the twenty-first issue of Baffling magazine.

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Assimilation, Through the Ocean Taking Bites from the Moon

by Claire Jia-Wen

“When Chin leaves for America, he takes an assortment of my body with him.”

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by Michael M. Jones

“One fine afternoon in early autumn, Clive of the Endless Sentence challenged Grimelda of the Precise Paragraph to a sorcerous duel…”

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by Raja’a Khalid

“You’ve spent ten thousand years at sea, a jinn on a rock, hurling lightning bolts like mighty javelins into the sky…”

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by Rose Maxwell

“You knew you were cursed even before that girl told you at the party.”

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by Madi Haab

“The spaceport speakers buzzed: ‘Attention all passengers, flight 1643 for Te’elu has been cancelled.’”

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by Gina Thayer

“You hate it when Elsie wears that dress, but it’s not like you’re going to say anything about it.”

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by Bastian Hart

“Boots sink into the freezing earth, crushing sedges as I traipse through the sleepy muskeg.”