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New story up at GNS: A sly fox proposes marriage to the King, promising to keep his deepest secret in return. Surprising everyone, even himself, the King accepts. Read “A Good King” by Sarah McGill
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A Good King - GigaNotoSaurus
In the last blush of autumn, the King of the Forest requested an audience with the King. The King was so delighted that he agreed at once. The audience was held in the King’s hall, the burnished tile ...
https://giganotosaurus.org/2025/10/01/a-good-king/
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For those of you who read GigaNotoSaurus magazine, we will be putting a pause on publishing for the months of August and September. We will reopen in October.
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GigaNotoSaurus on Pause for August and September - GigaNotoSaurus
Hello friends, GigaNotoSaurus will be pausing its publications for August and September. We will resume our publishing schedule in October. While we wish we didn’t have to interrupt our schedule, we b...
https://giganotosaurus.org/2025/07/14/giganotosaurus-on-pause-for-august-and-september/
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New story up at GNS: Amenau survives a space-wreck, but wakes on a strange planet, tended to by a frond-covered gold and blue creature. Surely this is a concussion. Surely. Read “Water to a Goose” by Sonia Focke
@soniafocke.bsky.social
giganotosaurus.org/2025/07/01/water-to-a-goose/
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Water to a Goose - GigaNotoSaurus
CW: grief, disassociation, presumed death of a child “Why give water to a goose at dawn if it is being slaughtered in the morning?” – Story of the Shipwrecked Sailor, Papyrus St. Pet...
https://giganotosaurus.org/2025/07/01/water-to-a-goose/
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New story up at GNS: Everyone knows that Starter Wives and Starter Babies are just for practice until it’s time to Reclaim them, but Charles Young has never felt right about it. Read “The Starter Family” by Sage Tyrtle
@sagetyrtle.bsky.social
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The Starter Family - GigaNotoSaurus
Around the time the boys in my class turn eleven, we start asking where the Starter Boys have gone. We start asking why there are grown-up girls, but no kids who grow up to be girls. Why our moms neve...
https://giganotosaurus.org/2025/06/01/the-starter-family/
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New story up at GNS The starling jacks clean the sacrifice altars of hungry gods, until it’s their turn on the block. But Shadow Jack may have his own god whispering to him. Read “Shadow Jack” by CL Hellisen
@clhellisen.bsky.social
giganotosaurus.org/2025/05/01/shadow-jack/
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Shadow Jack - GigaNotoSaurus
Content Note: aftermath of sacrifices, blood, body horror, offscreen abuse, suicide There is a hole in the wall by Shadow Jack’s bed. It is no bigger than a pin prick, and the wind that blows from it ...
https://giganotosaurus.org/2025/05/01/shadow-jack/
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New story up at GNS: No joke, the devil you made a deal with at thirteen is back to make you drink the Lethe, save Hell, and your son with it. But you must remember not to look back. Read “Horror Vacui” by A.V. Greene
@avgreenewrites.bsky.social
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Horror Vacui - GigaNotoSaurus
Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth.— William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell There’s evidence of the map everywhere if you know where to look. Orpheus strums his lyre on hi...
https://giganotosaurus.org/2025/04/01/horror-vacui/
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Seeking Slush Readers! GigaNotoSaurus Magazine, a two-time Hugo finalist in the Best Semiprozine category, is looking for readers to join our amazing slush team. We are particularly interested in queer and BIPOC readers. Interested? Please email
[email protected]
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New story up at GNS: “Your choice is either a bad death out there—” she angled her head at the window— “or going to the sea. That’s the only choice you’ve ever had.” Read “Something Rich and Strange” by L.S. Johnson
@lsjohnson.bsky.social
giganotosaurus.org/2025/03/01/something-rich-and-strange/
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Something Rich and Strange - GigaNotoSaurus
Content Note: body transformation/horror Irene traced her gloved finger down the window, following one of the raindrops as it slid left, its path forced by the speed of the train. The water stretched ...
https://giganotosaurus.org/2025/03/01/something-rich-and-strange/
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New story up at GNS: Fox and Troll are back, tasked with rescuing the famous chef Master Barozki from a witch—and facing one of their greatest challenges yet. Read “Fox and Troll Bake a Cake” by Jeffery Reynolds
@trollbreath.bsky.social
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Fox and Troll Bake a Cake - GigaNotoSaurus
After he thumped on her entry for a third time with his wooden hand, Troll unlocked the door using the key Fox had given him and stepped into the apartment she had purchased on a quiet, dead-end lane ...
https://giganotosaurus.org/2025/02/01/fox-and-troll-bake-a-cake/
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GNS submissions are now closed. In fifteen days, we got 413 submissions. Whew!
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Happy New Year! A reminder that submissions are OPEN today and will be open until January 15 11:59pm CST. So get your stories in!
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New story up at GNS: A framed picture of a fairy, the size of a child’s palm, shimmers with ethereal life. A watercolor, with real butterfly wings. How has it changed the lives it’s passed through? Read “Behind Glass” by Christi Krug
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Behind Glass - GigaNotoSaurus
Abi / Yakima Washington, July 1970 She finds the fairy in a suitcase. It’s the start of Abi’s weekend at the Bumping River cabin, and Nana tells her hurry up eat your breakfast while it’s hot. She sho...
https://giganotosaurus.org/2025/01/01/behind-glass/
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11 months ago
ICYMI: I have a short story up at GigaNotoSaurus ...
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GigaNotoSaurus will be reopening to submissions from January 1st - January 15th, 2025, so if you have SFF from 5,000-25,000 words, please send them our way! For more information on how to submit to GNS and what we’re looking for, please visit our website:
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Submission Guidelines - GigaNotoSaurus
We are currently closed to submissions. GigaNotoSaurus publishes one story a month. We pay $200 per story on acceptance. We ask for first serial rights and non-exclusive, indefinite archival rights, ...
https://giganotosaurus.org/submission-guidelines/
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Check out our 2024 Wrap-up for a look back at the last year, information about our next submission window, a look forward to 2025, and more!
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2024 Wrap-up and Submissions Re-opening in January 2025 - GigaNotoSaurus
What a year it has been for GigaNotoSaurus! My head is still spinning from all the good things that happened this year. We were nominated for the Hugo Award in the Semiprozine category, and while we d...
https://giganotosaurus.org/2024/12/13/2024-wrap-up-and-submissions-re-opening-in-january-2025/
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New story up at GNS: When María Luisa was eighteen and living in Saltabarranca, Veracruz, she danced with the Devil. Now, her daughter aims to do the same — only better. Read “Dead Reckoning in 6/8 time” by Sabrina Vourvoulias
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Dead reckoning in 6/8 time - GigaNotoSaurus
Señores, venga el aviso. Good people, here’s the notice. In my thirty-third year, this Spanglish-speaking, feet-in-two-worlds, gringa Latina...
https://giganotosaurus.org/2024/12/01/dead-reckoning-in-6-8-time/
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12 months ago
Join @ClowderofTwo reviewing short fiction from @GigaNotoSaurus_ (@giganotosaurus.bsky.social), @diabolicalplots (@diabolicalplots.com), and @SmallwondersSFF (@smallwondersmag.com) -
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GigaNotoSaurus, Diabolical Plots, and Small Wonders: Short Fiction Reviews by Charles Payseur
GigaNotoSaurus 8/24 Diabolical Plots 8/24 Small Wonders 8/24 The August GigaNotoSaurus story is Sarah J. Wu’s “Elves in Illinois”, which finds Linnet growing up in a small rural town that abuts a f…
https://locusmag.com/2024/11/giganotosaurus-diabolical-plots-and-small-wonders-short-fiction-reviews-by-charles-payseur/
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New story up at GNS: Garrett and his alternate selves once faced the world-eating Priscae Tenebrae in battle. Now he takes coffee orders from a flirtatious stranger. How did he get here? Read “Remnants” by Lauren Triola
@3followsso.bsky.social
giganotosaurus.org/2024/11/01/remnants
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Remnants - GigaNotoSaurus
Garrett listened to the man listing what ingredients he wanted in his latte while Garrett imagined choking him to death. He could see it clearly—the spindly neck beneath his fingers, the starched coll...
https://giganotosaurus.org/2024/11/01/remnants
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New story up at GNS: Four patients. Four surgeries. Four chances for Regan to sabotage the Elders’ loyalty implants as she installs them, and save everyone. Read “To Sacrifice Others” by R. Z. Held
@rhiannonheld.bsky.social
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To Sacrifice Others - GigaNotoSaurus
Content warning: suicide ideation, torture The call for Regan to operate on Entente citizens from the Elders’ latest raid inevitably caught her off-guard—she was the implant installation facility’s sp...
https://giganotosaurus.org/2024/10/01/to-sacrifice-others
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New story up at GNS: Thanks to a change in contract, Làngrén Kavita has to act fact or risk losing half her crew. The clock is ticking. Read “Here in the Glittering Black, There is Hope” by Monte Lin
@montelin.bsky.social
giganotosaurus.org/2024/09/01/here-in-the-glittering-black-there-is-hope
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Here in the Glittering Black, There is Hope - GigaNotoSaurus
Kavita stepped into the communication booth on Artemis Station and put on the glasses. An image of David Worthington, Immortal of Solar Standard, Inc., appeared in front of her, as if they were both s...
https://giganotosaurus.org/2024/09/01/here-in-the-glittering-black-there-is-hope
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New story up at GNS: In Clearwater Illinois the greenest farms are tended by elven hands. Linnet Halston can’t help her fascination with them. Read “Elves in Illinois” by Sarah J. Wu
giganotosaurus.org/2024/08/01/elves-in-illinois
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Elves in Illinois - GigaNotoSaurus
1972 The Woodthorn elves are famous around these parts: anything living or once alive grows at their touch. Plants do the best: wild flowers, trees, crops and grass—even wood that has been turned int...
https://giganotosaurus.org/2024/08/01/elves-in-illinois
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New story up at GNS: When Leticia volunteers for a daring space mission to defend the clean energy producing constellation her crew monitors, she doesn’t do it for the glory. She does it for her family. Read “Samba do Espaço” by Gustavo Bondoni
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Samba do Espaço - GigaNotoSaurus
The drums in the street called the Escola out and led them, pied-piper-like, down the hill to where the buses waited. Letícia looked up from her book–paper, ancient, but all she could afford–and felt ...
https://giganotosaurus.org/2024/07/01/samba-do-espaco/
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"The Rainbow Bank" from Uchechukwu Nwaka won a Locus Award for Best Novelette! We are very happy and proud!
locusmag.com/2024/06/2024...
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2024 Locus Awards Winners
The Locus Science Fiction Foundation announced the winners in each category of the 2024 Locus Awards on June 22, 2024, during the Locus Awards Weekend. Henry Lien MCed the awards ceremony with Cory…
https://locusmag.com/2024/06/2024-locus-awards-winners/
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New story up at GNS: When Gabrielle vacations in the glittering city of Jvir, she goes looking for the sights that inspired Kavran, the famous dragon painter. Instead, she finds herself transformed. Read “Underdragon” by Diana Dima
@dimafic.bsky.social
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Underdragon - GigaNotoSaurus
The dragon painter came to Jvir and drank the sea, sang with the sands, swallowed the sun and breathed it out on Rowanhill – Song from Jvir Gabrielle’s face had always needed improvement. In the morni...
https://giganotosaurus.org/2024/06/01/underdragon
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We are thrilled beyond belief that "The Rainbow Bank" published in our 8/2023 issue, is a finalist in the Locus Awards. Congratulations, Uchechukwu Nwaka!
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2024 Locus Awards Top Ten Finalists
The Locus Science Fiction Foundation has announced the top ten finalists in each category of the 2024 Locus Awards. These results are from the February 1 to April 15 voting, done by readers on an o…
https://locusmag.com/2024/05/2024-locus-awards-top-ten-finalists/
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New story up at GNS: How did the three sisters bring Annie Sheridan back from the other side of the veil? A magicienne should never reveal her secrets 🤫 Read “Lacquer Cabinet Trick” by Eris Young
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Lacquer Cabinet Trick - GigaNotoSaurus
I admonish you, for the love you bear me and I for the three of you. Let the following pages be seen by no eyes but yours. The first thing Annie Sheridan said when she regained consciousness was, ‘You...
https://giganotosaurus.org/2024/05/01/lacquer-cabinet-trick
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Guess who got to be on radio this morning? Check out my interview with WORT FM:
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Madison-based Giganotosaurus zine nominated for Hugo Award - WORT-FM 89.9
Andy Moore interviews LaShawn Wanak, editor of the sci-fi zine GigaNotoSaurus, to discuss its recent nomination for a Hugo Award. The Hugo Awards, prestigious accolades in science fiction and fantasy, […]
https://www.wortfm.org/madison-based-giganotosaurus-zine-nominated-for-hugo-award/
over 1 year ago
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Mia Tsai, rabble-rouser
over 1 year ago
Behold, an interview at Madison 365 where
@tbonejenkins.bsky.social
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notching a Hugo finalist position! (This remains surreal.)
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Our 2023 Award Eligibility post is now up; also an announcement that submissions will be closed while we catch up on slush.
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2023 Award Eligibility Post & Submissions on Hold (for now) - GigaNotoSaurus
Hello friends, This post is a bit late. I had a lot on my plate over the past few months which I will talk about in a bit. First here are the stories we published that are eligible for awards in 2023:...
https://giganotosaurus.org/2024/02/26/2023-award-eligibility-post-submissions-on-hold-for-now/
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New story up at GNS: A Dance for the Dead by R. J. Howell
@mytherea.bsky.social
Teiz has a trial before him: Dance with the dead, appease the lake, and protect his war-torn homeland. If he fails, he must sacrifice his life instead.
giganotosaurus.org/2024/02/01/a-dance-for-the-dead
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https://giganotosaurus.org/2024/02/01/a-dance-for-the-dead
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New story up at GNS: The Nine Lives of the Door Spirit by E.A. Petricone
@eapetricone.bsky.social
A threshold, a friend, a nuisance, a protector to the end, A door is a door is a door is a door, except when it’s so much more.
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The Nine Lives of the Door Spirit - GigaNotoSaurus
The sacred duty of every door spirit is to let in what must be let in, to keep out what must be kept out, and faithfully guard the threshold of all things. How well they uphold the integrity of the pa...
https://giganotosaurus.org/2024/01/01/the-nine-lives-of-the-door-spirit/
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New story up at GNS: Reconciliation Dumplings and Other Recipes by Sara Norja
@saranorja.bsky.social
How to Make A Potful of Lakeside Tales: -12 Recipes, both Sweet and Savory -12 Strange Tales Fold together until delicious
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Reconciliation Dumplings and Other Recipes - GigaNotoSaurus
For Jari — the adaptor and tester of these recipes, here’s to many more cooking-writing adventures together ~~~ A POTFUL OF LAKESIDE TALES Containing Twelve Recipes both Sweet and Savoury Said Rec...
https://giganotosaurus.org/2023/12/01/reconciliation-dumplings-and-other-recipes
almost 2 years ago
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about 2 years ago
I’ve got a new story up at
@giganotosaurus.bsky.social
today! “Ghosting” is about the Southern California desert, outsiders, and forgetting. Find it here!
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New story up at GNS: Ghosting by Kelly Lagor
@klagor.bsky.social
"You’re an elaborate shell game of a person. Lydia. A flesh-bound lie." Haunted by cryptic emails, Lydia stumbles out of the desert and discovers the trunk that holds her entire life is gone
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about 2 years ago
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about 2 years ago
And if you want to read the original story, read it here at
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The Air in My House Tastes Like Sugar - GigaNotoSaurus
“The air in my house tastes like sugar and the floors are sticky,” said Amnandi Khumalo. “Amnandi…” “Unina, you say I should be honest!” She wanted to cry, for she was lonely, yet she re...
https://giganotosaurus.org/.../the-air-in-my-house.../
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When I first read "The Air in my House Tastes Like Sugar", I found myself tumbling into a world of softness and strength, joy and sorrow, and overall, quiet resistance. The fact that there is now a whole entire novel of this makes me super giddy!
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Breath, Warmth & Dream: Book One of the Khumalo Trilogy
A mother/daughter witch duo travel their wide weird world in search of knowledge and wonder.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/obsidiansky/breath-warmth-and-dream-book-one-of-the-khumalo-trilogy?ref=thanks-copy
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New story up at GNS: On the English Approach to the Study of History, by E. Saxey
@esaxey.bsky.social
Two academics unknowingly disturb an ancient pecking order with the academic equivalent of a roast that challenges the traditional Cambridge approach to history.
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On the English Approach to the Study of History - GigaNotoSaurus
History was being made. It was being made in the cold and lively city of Glasgow: dug out of archives, translated from handwriting, combed out of the cloud of digitised court records. It was being ham...
https://tinyurl.com/3sdh6x6r
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The donate link in the editorial now points to our main page. Go to the bottom of the About section and click the "Donate" button there if you want to do a one-time donation. Thanks!
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New Editorial up at GNS: We need your help! Yes, it's time for 'that' post. The one where we talk about the future of GNS and invite you to our dreams of continuing to publish awesome authors.
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September 2023 Editorial - The "We Need Your Help" Post - GigaNotoSaurus
Hello friends of GigaNotoSaurus, You probably knew this was coming when I made the announcement that I was now the owner of GNS. Let me not sugarcoat this, then. In order for us to continue running, w...
https://giganotosaurus.org/2023/09/05/september-2023-editorial-the-we-need-your-help-post/
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New story up at GNS: The Rainbow Bank, by Uchechukwu Nwaka @uche_cjn After the Spillage, life became one of dreams and nightmares, where powerful Relics rule. Mezie’s after one of these Relics: a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow.
https://giganotosaurus.org/2023/08/01/the-rainbow-bank/
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The Rainbow Bank - GigaNotoSaurus
I – TOMATO DISTRICT Mezie adjusted the glasses on the bridge of his nose and tried to look inconspicuous as he stalked the back alleys of Tomato District. This side of town, apartment blocks were sq...
https://giganotosaurus.org/2023/08/01/the-rainbow-bank/
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