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This is our sixth story for the month of February 2025, issue 21.

Our piece is titled Numerzmatic Arctypes in the Year of Five Regents, and is by Louis Inglis Hall.

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Louis English Hall is a civil servant living in

Scotland. His stories can be found at Clark's World, Strange Horizons, and Andromeda Spaceways

magazine, amongst others. He was introduced to Roman coin tables at university and hasn't been the same

since. And if you like which here, you can go back to fishing the intergalactic stream.

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

Figure one, gold coin, 356, P.F.

Or post foundation adverse profile of a rail right facing legend regent eternal reverse tree fruiting symbolizing prosperity this five sorrel piece is in fine condition.

The design is sophisticated, improving upon the bronze aurels minted throughout the 340s.

Trees were a common peacetime motif and recurrent coinage from Arrails accession in 339 onwards.

They cut off A rails head and they put it on a pike above the city's third best bridge to me that seemed a shame i'd only just got his nose right it had a crooked in it or rails

nose a sporting accident from his days at the academy.

He'd been playing in some intramural league, the sort of game that teenagers play with

balls and sticks and plastic shields jammed across their gums. Whether it was a ball or stick,

I don't know, but it left him with this pad of flesh, a thickening over the bridge, like a

sticking plaster. In my head, it was doughy, malleable.

In my head, I pressed down with my thumbs and watched it spread, watched the fat disperse into

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