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Issues

Everything we’ve published since inception. You can also use the navigation bar to the left.


Issue #11: MISUNDERSTANDING
Stories in which one or more characters misunderstand an important communication of some kind.


Issue #10: DELICATE (also available in downloadable PDF)
Stories in which one or more characters have to handle an object, person, or situation that they consider “delicate” (whether it really is or not).


Issue #9: THE PLAN (also available in downloadable PDF)
Stories in which one or more characters attempt to execute a specific plan, and the plan fails.


Issue #8: FIRST (also available in downloadable PDF)
Stories in which one or more characters encounter someone, something, or some place for the first time.


Issue #7: AGAIN (also available in downloadable PDF)
Stories in which one or more characters encounter someone, something, or some place from their past that they had good reason to believe they would never encounter again.


Issue #6: REVELATION (also available in downloadable PDF)
Stories in which one or more characters discover that something believed to be true is actually false.


Issue #5: FOUND (also available in downloadable PDF)
Stories in which one or more characters *unexpectedly* find one or more physical objects somewhere—objects that raise questions the characters want answered.


Issue #4: GOODBYE TO ALL THAT (also available in downloadable PDF)
Stories in which one or more characters face living without a person, place, thing, or idea that has had a powerful effect on their lives.


Issue #3: DISGUISED (also available in downloadable PDF)
Stories in which one or more characters use some kind of physical disguise to pretend to be somebody or something they’re not.


Issue #2: DETECTOR (also available in downloadable PDF)
Stories in which one or more characters want to find a supremely capable detector—one that can discern something almost imperceptible.


Issue #1: WRONG TURN (also available in downloadable PDF)
Stories in which one or more characters, for some reason, fail to arrive at an intended destination.