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  "description": "I've often thought of short fiction being the engine that drives speculative fiction. So many authors cut their teeth with shorter works, and it's a phenomenal way to meet new storytellers and creators – as well as new publications.\n\nSince I've launched this column, I've been adding new publications as I come across them, and if you turn back to March's installment, you'll find a whole bunch of newer publications that have arrived on the scene. Give them a try and see what they're bringing to re",
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    "Adventitious",
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    "All Under Heaven",
    "Madam Strzyga’s Pagan Pest Control",
    "Fernie",
    "Passing Through",
    "We Decay In The Dark",
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    "Penance",
    "Fractal House",
    "Raze My Brain, Open My Eyes",
    "Spirit Alembic Keeper",
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    "Fire and Brimstone",
    "Amazing Stories",
    "Junie and Kamal in the Machine",
    "Rock and Roll",
    "Make Space Great Again",
    "Apex Magazine",
    "Excerpt of The Cellar Below the Cellar",
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    "Intellectual Colonialism and the Erasure of South and Eastern European Writing Voices: Another Tikka-Masala",
    "Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review",
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    "Beneath Ceaseless Skies",
    "The Sparrow Tree",
    "Song, Skin, Sea",
    "Concerto for Winds and Resistance",
    "In The Blood",
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    "Windows",
    "The Tale’s in the Telling",
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    "Remembering Dodem Ansibar",
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    "Editorial: April 2026",
    "Author Spotlight: V.M. Ayala",
    "Author Spotlight: J.R. Dawson",
    "Author Spotlight: Ashok K. Banker",
    "Book Review: Sauúti Terrors by Eugen Bacon, Stephen Embleton, and Cheryl S. Ntumy, eds.",
    "Book Review: The Witch by Marie N’Diaye, translated by Jordan Stump",
    "Author Spotlight: Justin C. Key",
    "Book Review: Aicha by Soraya Bouazzaoui",
    "Mythmaxis",
    "The Agentic Necklace",
    "On Miracles",
    "The Perfect Mother",
    "The Negotiation",
    "Search History",
    "Pultu's Lesson",
    "Reintroduction",
    "The Spear Cuts Through Water, by Simon Jimenez",
    "Short Reviews – October 2025 to January 2026",
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    "False Hope",
    "Ozymandias undead",
    "New year, old me",
    "Waiting for them",
    "The memory dealer of Old Jeddah",
    "In the flesh",
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    "Immolation",
    "Nightmare Magazine",
    "The Final Girl Trap",
    "The Spiders You Swallow in Your Sleep",
    "We Are All in the Same Boat",
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    "Author Spotlight: A.C. Wise",
    "The H Word: Why Do We Like the Weird?",
    "Author Spotlight: Avi Burton",
    "Interview: Dan Coxon",
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    "You Must Be This Tall",
    "Formative Years",
    "Bones for Safe Keeping",
    "Body Count",
    "Carrion",
    "The House with White Walls",
    "Charts of the Sorcerer 1: Duel",
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    "Return to Foreverland",
    "A Bargain's a Bargain",
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    "Let’s Go to the Zoo",
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    "Sea Witch",
    "A Noose is a Knot",
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    "The Things You’ll Wish You’d Known",
    "Solarpunk Magazine",
    "Strange Horizons",
    "The Houses of the Stars in Heaven",
    "Underneath the Underneath",
    "The Tiger in the Room | 방안의호랑이",
    "Heavens Fall | 杞忧",
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    "laurels",
    "Dead City Dreaming",
    "Skiinfolk",
    "Refuse",
    "The Shut-in on the 55th Floor",
    "The Approach of the Dead | نهج الموتى",
    "Dispelling Fantasies: Authors of Color Reimagine a Genre by Joy Sanchez-Taylor",
    "When They Burned the Butterfly by Wen-Yi Lee",
    "The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses by Malka Older",
    "The Faith of Beasts by James S. A. Corey",
    "Book of Potions by Lauren K. Watel",
    "Climate Imagination: Dispatches from Hopeful Futures edited by Joey Eschrich and Ed Finn",
    "Krackle’s Last Movie by Chelsea Sutton",
    "Cryptids, Kaiju & Corn: Poems and Micro-Stories about Modern Midwest Monsters edited by Randy Brown",
    "Isaac by Allee Mead",
    "The Sunday Morning Transport",
    "Strawberries",
    "Corpse Pose",
    "Northern Lights and Southern Robots",
    "Uncanny Magazine",
    "Welcome to Heroism",
    "The Woman Who Stole Flowers",
    "Permanent Press",
    "Nuclear Deterrence Doll",
    "The Truth About Wolves",
    "What Does It Mean to Be Immortal?",
    "What Prose Writers Can Learn from Script Writers (and What Not to Learn)",
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Consider leaving a tip to help underwrite the work that goes into assembling it:\n\nLearn more\n\nOkay, here are the short stories coming out this month:\n\n* * *\n\n## Adventitious (April 2026, Issue 2)\n\nSubscribe here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * “All Under Heaven” by Marie Brennan\n  * “Madam Strzyga’s Pagan Pest Control” by Katharine Tyndall\n  * “Fernie” by Angela Liu\n  * “Passing Through” by Laurie Doyle\n  * “We Decay In The Dark” by Ayida Shonibar\n  * “Of Sight, Of Mind, Of Heart” by Samantha Murray\n  * “Penance” by Jennifer Hudak\n  * “Fractal House” by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor\n  * “Raze My Brain, Open My Eyes” by Faith Allington\n  * “Spirit Alembic Keeper” by Emma Burnett\n  * “The Place of Oblation” by Deborah L. Davitt\n  * “Last Edit to THE ALL BANGERS LIST Made By Your Sex Robot at 11:39 A.M.” by Natalie Zutter\n  * “Fire and Brimstone” by S. I. Fapohunda\n  * “Biter” by Michelle Knudsen\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Amazing Stories (April 2026)\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"Junie and Kamal in the Machine\" by Jessy Randall\n  * \"Rock and Roll\" by Norman Cowie\n  * \"Make Space Great Again\" by Mike Strickland\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Apex Magazine (Issue 152)\n\nSubscribe here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * Excerpt of The Cellar Below the Cellar__ by Ivy Grimes (4/6)\n  * \"One Last Light to Guide Me Home\" by Avery Parks (4/28)\n\n\n\n### Nonfiction\n\n  * \"Intellectual Colonialism and the Erasure of South and Eastern European Writing Voices: Another Tikka-Masala\" by Sophia-Maria Nicolopoulos (4/14)\n  * \"Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review\" by A.C. Wise (4/21)\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Aurealis (Issue #189)\n\nSubscribe here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"From the Cloud\" by Stephen Higgins\n  * \"Out of Time\" by Carolyn Galbraith\n  * \"Little Drid Makes a Call\" by Andrew Renganathan Roberts\n  * \"Epimetheus\" by Luke Weavell\n\n\n\n### Nonfiction\n\n  * William Walker, His Fiction and Now-Solved Mystery by Gillian Polack\n  * Fallout as Critical Retrofuturism by Ani White\n  * Building Empires and Stories: A Conversation with Nicola Zhang by Natalia Soriano\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Beneath Ceaseless Skies (April 2026, Issues 445 and 456)\n\nSubscribe here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"The Sparrow Tree\" by Alma Alexander\n  * \"Song, Skin, Sea\" by Tamara Vardomskaya\n  * \"Concerto for Winds and Resistance\" by Cara Masten DiGirolamo\n  * \"In The Blood\" by Alex Irvine\n  * \"The Long Weeping Arms of the Parasitic Horde\" by Bee Hyland\n  * \"On the Origin of Song\" by Naim Kabir\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Clarkesworld Magazine__()\n\nSubscribe here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"Macaroni Art in the Age of Filtration\" by Ryan Cole\n  * \"D0G\" by Tania Fordwalker\n  * \"The Trajectory of Memory is Forward\" by Rajeev Prasad\n  * \"Eternity in Their Hearts\" by K. J. Khan\n  * \"Shelter\" by Nadia W. Aldsen\n  * \"The Forgetting Code\" by Malena Salazar Maciá\n  * \"Human Studies 401\" by Abby Nicole Yee\n\n\n\n### Nonfiction\n\n  * Sleeping to the Stars: The Science and Fiction of Cryosleep by Jason Collins\n  * Feynman Lectures Riff: A Conversation with John Chu by Arley Sorg\n  * Hope and Friendship Will Carry Us Through: A Conversation with Suzanne Palmer by Arley Sorg\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## The Dark (April 2026, Issue 131)\n\nSubscribe here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"Windows\" by __ Ibrahim Ojedokun\n  * \"The Tale’s in the Telling\" by __ Angela Slatter\n  * \"Dromedary Mary\" by __ Phoenix Alexander\n  * \"Wendigo\" by __ Michael Kelly\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Dark Horses Magazine (April 2026, Issue 51)\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"A Past Life\" by George Larson\n  * \"Grampa’s Shed\" by K.b. Olszewski\n  * \"Just Birds\" by Beau Maibaum\n  * \"The Ank Williams Story\" by Wayne Kyle Spitzer\n  * \"The Melting Pot Of Us\" by Khaled T. Aly\n  * \"The Slow Apocalypse Of The Clockwork Saints\" by Lucien R. Starchild\n  * \"The Thing About Ashridge\" by Bri Eberhart\n  * \"The Simoom\" by Rex A. Paar\n  * \"We Interrupt Your Regularly Scheduled Program\" by James Rumpel\n  * \"Grasshoppers\" by Theodora Sterling\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## The Deadlands (Spring 2026)\n\nSubscribe here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  *  _\"_ No Mother to Replace\" by Nosawema O.\n  * _\"_ In This Corner of the World\" by A. E. Weisgerber\n  * _\"_ The Dog\" by Phoenix Mendoza\n  * _\"_ After Messiaen: A Quartet for the End of Time\" by R.B. Lemberg\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Diabolical Plots (April 2026)\n\nSupport here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * “The House Knows” by Meghan Arcuri\n  * “Davy Jones, Lobsterman” by Daire McNally\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Fiyah: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction (Spring 2026, Issue 38)\n\nSubscribe here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"Minority Museum\" by T.T. Gibran\n  * \"On The Autonomy Of Whales\" by Amanda Helms\n  * \"Copula\" by Briana N Cox\n  * \"The Canines Never Lie\" by Virgo Kevonté\n  * \"Midnight In The Devil’s Punchbowl\" by Lisa Bennett Bolekaja\n  * \"What We Do\" by Darise Jeanbaptiste\n\n\n\n### Poetry\n\n  * \"This Time, Next Time\" by Akua Lezli Hope\n  * \"Someday\" by Christopher Leigh Silverberg\n  * \"Root Code\" by Argelia Salmon\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Flash Fiction Online (April 2026, Issue 151)\n\nDonate here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"Ten and Out\" by Myna Chang\n  * \"For Solomon Fishkowski Who Carved Chess Sets in Siberia\" by KD Casey\n  * \"Remembering Dodem Ansibar\" by Sam E. Sutin\n  * \"The Last Eleven Seconds\" David Farrow\n\n\n\n### Nonfiction\n\n  * Editorial: By the Numbers by Rebecca Halsey\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Flash Point SF (April 2026, Issue 2)\n\nSubscribe here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"I Crave My Meat a Little Rare\" by Rajiv Moté\n  * \"Driving On\" by J. Y. Zhang\n  * \"Grandfather’s Pond\" by Aeryn Rudel\n  * \"Raja\" by Moh Afdhaal\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## GigaNotoSaurus__(April 2026)\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"House of Honeyed Soil\" by Natalie Wollenweber\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Lightspeed Magazine (April 2026, Issue 191)\n\nSubscribe here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"Saint Zero of the Hollows and the Eagle Knight\" by V.M. Ayala (4/9)\n  * \"Hell Is Empty\" by J.R. Dawson (4/9)\n  * \"Dad Died on Discord\" by Andrew Dana Hudson (4/16)\n  * \"Six-Gun Vixen and the Machinist of Doom Valley [Part 1]\" by Ashok K. Banker (4/16)\n  * \"Update on Rules for the Spatiotemporal Use of Campus Spaces\" by Andrea Kriz (4/23)\n  * \"Six-Gun Vixen and the Machinist of Doom Valley [Part 2]\" by Ashok K. Banker (4/23)\n  * \"Empathetic Psychosis_\"_ by Justin C. Key (4/30)\n  * \"Time Management_\"_ by P.A. Cornell (4/30)\n\n\n\n### Nonfiction\n\n  * Editorial: April 2026__ by John Joseph Adams (4/9)\n  * Author Spotlight: V.M. Ayala__ by Leighanna DeRouen (4/9)\n  * Author Spotlight: J.R. Dawson__ by Phoebe Barton (4/9)\n  * Author Spotlight: Ashok K. Banker__ by Erik Grove (4/16)\n  * Book Review: Sauúti Terrors by Eugen Bacon, Stephen Embleton, and Cheryl S. Ntumy, eds.__ by Arley Sorg (4/16)\n  * Book Review: The Witch by Marie N’Diaye, translated by Jordan Stump by Melissa A Watkins (4/23)\n  * Author Spotlight: Justin C. Key by Delia Cullity (4/30)\n  * Book Review: Aicha by Soraya Bouazzaoui by Chris Kluwe (4/30)\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Mythmaxis__(Spring 2026, Issue 45)\n\nSupport here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"The Agentic Necklace\" by Frank Baird Hughes\n  * \"On Miracles\" by P. W. Lewis\n  * \"The Perfect Mother\" by Jude Clee\n  * \"The Negotiation\" by Vanessa Fabiano\n  * \"Search History\" by Jon Clendaniel\n  * \"Pultu's Lesson\" by Sean Myers\n\n\n\n### Nonfiction\n\n  * Reintroduction by Andrew Leon Hudson\n  * The Spear Cuts Through Water, by Simon Jimenez by Mattia Ravasi\n  * Short Reviews – October 2025 to January 2026 by Andrew Leon Hudson\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Nature Futures (April 2026)\n\nSubscribe here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"False Hope\" by Hall Jameson\n  * \"Homelessness of the heart\" by Tomias Keno\n  * \"Ozymandias undead\" by Bryce Saputo\n  * \"New year, old me\" by Robert Blasiak\n  * \"Waiting for them\" by Marissa Lingen\n  * \"The memory dealer of Old Jeddah\" by Addidi Youness\n  * \"In the flesh\" by Jasmin Kirkbride\n  * \"Immolation\" by Lucy Zhang\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Nightmare Magazine (April 2026, Issue 163)\n\nSubscribe here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"The Final Girl Trap\" by A.C. Wise (4/8)\n  * \"The Spiders You Swallow in Your Sleep\" by Wendy Nikel (4/15)\n  * \"We Are All in the Same Boat\" by __ Avi Burton (4/22)\n  * \"graveyard of butterflies_\"_ by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe (4/29)\n\n\n\n### Nonfiction\n\n  * Editorial: April 2026 by Wendy N. Wagner (4/8)\n  * Author Spotlight: A.C. Wise by Clay Vermulm (4/8)\n  * The H Word: Why Do We Like the Weird?__ by RSL (4/15)\n  * Author Spotlight: Avi Burton by Devin Marcus (4/22)\n  * Interview: Dan Coxon__ by Alex Puncekar (4/29)\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine (April 2026, Vol 9, Issue 6)\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"You Must Be This Tall\" by Laura DeHaan\n  * \"Formative Years\" by Jacqueline West\n  * \"Bones for Safe Keeping\" by Charlie Winter\n  * \"Body Count\" by Sage Early\n  * \"Carrion\" by Jordan Hirsch\n  * \"The House with White Walls\" by Dana Beehr\n  * \"Charts of the Sorcerer 1: Duel\" by Phil Emery\n  * \"The Archaeology of Yarn\" by A J Dalton\n  * \"Return to Foreverland\" by Virgo Kevonté\n  * \"A Bargain's a Bargain\" by Gerri Leen\n  * \"So That We May Remember\" by Rina Song\n  * \"Unabashed Appetite\" by Lynne Sargent\n  * \"Alakhani\" by Ananya Kashyap\n  * \"My God, What Has Happened?\" by SJ Townend\n  * \"In the wake of this decay\" by Mahaila Smith\n  * \"The New Air\" by Neil James Hudson\n  * \"The Wedding Speech You Weren't Asked to Give, for the Couple Who Didn't Invite You\" by S.R. Kriger\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Reactor__(April 2026)\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"Let’s Go to the Zoo\" by Louis Evans\n  * \"The Day-Blind Stars\" by Christopher Rowe\n  * \"I Spin Records Into Gold\" by Daria Lavelle\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Small Wonders Magazine (April 2026, Issue 34)\n\nDonate here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"My Favorite Human\" by Corrie Haldane\n  * \"Sacrifice Homecoming\" by Manuela Amiouny\n  * \"The Stars Play Tug-of-War Sometimes\" by Jeannie Marschall\n  * \"The Numbers\" by Susan Taitel\n  * \"Sea Witch\" by Faith Allington\n  * \"A Noose is a Knot\" by M. R. Edgeworth\n  * \"Our House\" by Eleanor Lennox\n  * \"The Vampire Contemplates Skin Care\" by Lynne Sargent\n  * The Things You’ll Wish You’d Known\" by Kristen Koopman\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Solarpunk Magazine (March/April 2026, Issue 26)\n\nSupport here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * “The Mycelium Daughter” by Bella Chacha\n  * “Hangnail” by Emmett Amphibia\n  * “The Baobab Data Tree” by Irene W. Collins\n\n\n\n### Poetry\n\n  * “The Soft Reboot of the World” by Aspen Greenwood\n  * “The Ships of Terabythia” by Kray Van Kirk\n\n\n\n### Essay\n\n  * “Humans Aren’t the Only Victims of War” by Aya Al-Hattab\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Strange Horizons (April 2026)\n\nDonate here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"The Houses of the Stars in Heaven\" by Ferdison Cayetano\n  * \"Underneath the Underneath\" by Audrey Zhou\n  * \"The Tiger in the Room | 방안의호랑이\" by Moon Young Park, translated by Paige Aniyah Morris\n  * \"Heavens Fall | 杞忧\" by Lu Qiucha, translated by Hal Y. Zhang\n\n\n\n### Poetry\n\n  * \"Many of you have been asking what happens when an angel dies\" by Seoung Kim\n  * \"Code Blue\" by Victoria Ojo\n  * \"laurels\" by Crystal Sidell\n  * \"Dead City Dreaming\" by Joshua Ginsberg\n  * \"Skiinfolk\" by Jamie McGhee\n  * \"Refuse\" by Megan Branning\n  * \"The Shut-in on the 55th Floor\" by Abby Nicole Yee\n  * \"The Approach of the Dead | نهج الموتى \" by Ali Wajeeh, translated by Muntather Alsawad and Jeffrey Clapp\n\n\n\n### Reviews\n\n  * Monday: Dispelling Fantasies: Authors of Color Reimagine a Genre by Joy Sanchez-Taylor by Nick Hubble\n  * Wednesday: When They Burned the Butterfly by Wen-Yi Lee by Kyle R. Garton\n  * Friday: The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses by Malka Older by Safia H. Senhaji\n  * Monday: The Faith of Beasts by James S. A. Corey by Bill Capossere\n  * Wednesday: Book of Potions by Lauren K. Watel by Danielle Hanson\n  * Friday: Climate Imagination: Dispatches from Hopeful Futures edited by Joey Eschrich and Ed Finn by Seamus Sullivan\n  * Monday: Krackle’s Last Movie by Chelsea Sutton by Hana Carolina\n  * Wednesday: Cryptids, Kaiju & Corn: Poems and Micro-Stories about Modern Midwest Monsters edited by Randy Brown by Thomas E. Simmons\n  * Friday: Isaac by Allee Mead by Alex Kingsley\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## The Sunday Morning Transport (April 2026)\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"Strawberries\" by D.A. Xiaolin Spires\n  * \"Corpse Pose\" by Rich Larson\n  * \"Northern Lights and Southern Robots\" by Brenda Cooper\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n##\n\n## Uncanny Magazine (March/April 2026, Issue 69)\n\nSubscribe here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"Welcome to Heroism\" by John Wiswell (4/7)\n  * \"The Woman Who Stole Flowers\" by Theodora Goss (4/7)\n  * \"Permanent Press\" by Sunwoo Jeong (4/7)\n\n\n\n### Poetry\n\n  * \"Nuclear Deterrence Doll\" by Thomas Mixon (4/7)\n  * \"The Truth About Wolves\" by Marissa Lingen (4/7)\n\n\n\n### Nonfiction\n\n  * What Does It Mean to Be Immortal? by Ai Jiang (4/7)\n  * What Prose Writers Can Learn from Script Writers (and What Not to Learn) by Jane Espenson (4/7)\n  * Interview: Sunwoo Jeong by Caroline M. Yoachim (4/7)\n\n\n\n* * *\n\nThanks for reading, and check back at the end of the month: I'll update the links for stories as they come out.\n\nI'll have the first book list for April coming next week.",
  "title": "Table of Contents, April 2026",
  "updatedAt": "2026-05-01T15:44:49.584Z"
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