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This is our second to the last story of the month for January 2021,

issue 172. I hope, wherever you're listening to this that you are happy, healthy, and warm.

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So our fifth story for the month of January is titled Aster's Partialities,

Vitri's Best Store for Sundry Antiques.

It is by Tova Strong. Tova Strong is a

queer human from a small train town in New Mexico.

She's a graduate of Alpha, the science fiction fantasy and horror

workshop for young writers

and a senior in the Creative

writing department at the Institute of American Indian Arts. She writes

fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction and she has begun to enter the world

of journalism. She cherishes rainstorms and watches ravens whenever possible.

So my dear listener I hope you can sit back.

Relax and let me tell you a story.

The unhappy impetus. The Unhappy unhappy Empetus

If the book had begun differently, perhaps it would have ended.

Sid was overconfident, reckless enough to edge into paranoia. She practiced verbal deflection and kept her

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