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Circumstantial Fortune
Cassandra Mason
How does one take back the unforgivable? How does one carry on when no one else would be capable of...
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I Have the Answer
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Short stories that manage to feel both fantastical and disturbingly familiar.
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Boys Come First
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Circumstantial Fortune
Cassandra Mason
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