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The Deadlands

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Issue 42
Spring 2026
Fiction
In This Corner Of the WorldA. E. Weisgerber The DogPhoenix Mendoza Lurid PartsMaya Ysabel Ng What the Trees Took BackMarvin Garbeh Davis, Sr. The City in WhiteDiana Dima
Poetry
No Mother to ReplaceNosawema O. After Messiaen: A Quartet for the End of TimeR.B. Lemberg We’re Running out of Fingers for All This CountingKelsey Dean
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