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Money, Money, Money

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September 3, 2026
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In a quiet, still green clearing within the forest, the animals decided to abandon the barter system. Bartering was tedious, especially for Barney the Badger, who was tired of lugging forty sacks of pinecones to the lake just to buy a single jar of river trout from the Observant Otters.…
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Summa Cum Confusion (Part 2)

[ The Story So Far: read here https://eurolit.net/?p=4229 ] Five minutes. Four minutes and fifty-eight seconds. Dr Cybelius stared at the chemistry speech. Then at the Physics letter. Then at the ceiling. Then at his cabin bag. Something about the cabin bag caught his attention. The unidentified metal object. He…

The Last Truth Unearthed

August 5, 2026
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At the edge of the scene stood a child holding an adult’s hand, watching the empty flowerbed with complete innocence. He was two years old. Twenty-five years later, he would be arrested for a murder that had already happened and had not yet begun...…
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The Ghosts-upon-Avon (Part 1)

July 21, 2026
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‘We shall never know whether Sir Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe, Edward de Vere, Sir Walter Raleigh, John Donne, Sir William Stanley, Anne Hathaway, even Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen herself, or anyone else wrote Shakespeare’s plays and poems. Still, if they did not, they missed a great, unique opportunity to…
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The Indie Song of the Cicadas

July 19, 2026
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There is a tragic beauty in this literary ecosystem. To spend months or years crafting a universe, knowing it may only ever be read by a handful of people, perhaps family, a few loyal friends, and a stranger across an ocean, is a pure, unadulterated form of devotion…
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0.00% Crunch

July 13, 2026
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It was 100% chemical perfection. No gluten to inflame the gut. No sugar to spike the blood. No fat to clog the tubes. No salt to strain the pump. It was a perfectly engineered, mathematically flawless fuel for a perfectly miserable existence.…
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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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