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The Weekday Transparency Act of 2026

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September 2, 2026
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Effective immediately, all day names have been legally renamed to clear up any lingering confusion. To ensure full compliance, please update your vocabulary to the following approved, fair-sex designations: Please print your September 2026 attached calendar sheet immediately to reflect these critical regulatory updates.…

Censoring the Shades

August 18, 2026
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Our story takes place in the very country where the play of Romeo and Juliet was completely banned for ‘promoting paedophilic attitudes towards minors’. Yes, unfortunately, it was this same nation where our team of biologists managed to engineer the most perfect black-hole tulips in existence. Within days, however, those…
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The Missing E.P. Stone Files

August 17, 2026
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It was a cheerless Tuesday morning in London and the fog was as thick as cold porridge. Detective Fred Flint sat at his battered oak desk, nursing a lukewarm cup of tea and staring blankly out of the misty window. Opposite him, Detective Barney Rubb was vigorously trying to remove…
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𝐓𝖍𝖊 𝕭𝖔𝖔𝖐 𝐓𝖍𝖆𝖙 𝕹𝖊𝖛𝖊𝖗 𝑾𝖆𝖘

August 16, 2026
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To review a book that contains not a single word feels initially like a nonsensical exercise in literary absurdity. Yet 𝐓𝖍𝖊 𝕽𝖊𝖘𝖙 𝙄𝖘 𝑺𝖎𝖑𝖊𝖓𝖈𝖊, printed in London in the late spring of 1598, is perhaps the most radical artifact in the history of the bound volume. Published exactly one year…
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THE TROJAN UFO

August 15, 2026
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For one hundred forty-one years, historians have insisted that the Statue of Liberty is a statue. This is, frankly, embarrassing. Much like the ancient Greeks concealed a battalion inside a wooden horse to breach Troy, the aliens disguised a colossal warship within a copper statue to infiltrate Earth unnoticed. The…
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Former diplomat and globetrotter, Dan Costinas is a versatile contemporary writer, translator, and editor. A true polyglot, he has authored and contributed to several dozen books spanning mainly fiction, essays, aphorisms, reviews and criticism, journalism, and poetry.

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