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Welcome to the fourth story, the month of July issue 214. I want to thank each and every one of you for subscribing to the magazine.

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Our piece is titled Stellar Evolutions in pop idle artistry and is by M. X. Liu.

M. X Liu is a Chinese diaspora writer and a physician born in Tianjin and currently living in between Toronto and Vancouver. M is the 2024

astounding Award Nominated author of The Death I Gave Him, and If Found,

Return to Hell, both published by Salaras books slash rebellion publishing so my dear listener I hope you can sit back relax and let me tell you a story out there the crowd is waiting.

Ming Ming knows they must be faster and hungrier than any he has seen so far in his career.

But all he can make out is a dark mass rolling, rushing, rising to reach

him where they think he will appear. His breathing comes harsh and labored in his own ears.

For a moment, the air air on series is thick with

swag in anticipation.

Fuck the atmosphere, gas titration. When Ming Ming inhales, the crowd moves

with him as one being made up only of want.

Sound billows around him a solid thing, music and cheering layered together, bass and wales.

It drills into him, bust something frantic open in his sternum.

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