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A PUBLIC SPACE

No. 31

This is an issue of weather and misinterpretation, and the unexpected patterns created by these natural forces.

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Table of Contents

Textile

Atmospheric Reentry

What would it feel like to wear a cloud.

Maiko Takeda

Fiction

A Lot of Good It Does Being in the Underworld

It's not damnation that sends you there. It's the instinct for return.

Corinna Vallianatos

Fiction

The Funeral

He wanted to be held together by people who had known the shape of him as a child.

Mahreen Sohail

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