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Welcome to the fifth story for the month of July 2023 issue 202.

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Our fifth story for the month is titled Tigers for Salons by Risa Wolfe.

Risa Wolfe is a multi-gendered water elemental disguised as an ink-stained light-and-thrope.

Don't tell their spouse or their dogs, the disguise is working.

They come from the burned-over district and every so often it shows.

They imagine houses for book-ghosts for living and the writing can be found in apex, cosmasth

infinities and cast of wonders.

So my dear listener, I hope you can sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

Past the Sparrow Dark Dust Fields of Far, Uniply, at the edge of the joined cultures galactic

borders within the section of space they call the emptiness, the station floats, the station

waits, the station prepares itself for the inevitability of another explorer's arrival.

No, I can't.

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