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It is too warm in the tower. The kitchen keeps making hot drinks regardless. No one is drinking them, but still more appear. We're going to keep ignoring them, and keep reading poetry. Like this:

"Porcelain Weather" by @thejolaade

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We set down the link. You click it.

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It is too warm in the tower. The kitchen keeps making hot drinks regardless. No one is drinking them, but still more appear. We're going to keep ignoring them, and keep reading poetry. Like this:

"Porcelain Weather" by @thejolaade

https://t.co/BuHx8lwAGp

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You stopped and looked at the link. You should click it too.

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For every word you read in this post, we're stealing something from you. Just little things. The memory of what you did at 4:28pm last Tuesday, for example. To get it back, read today's story:

"Robbed" by Jordyn Damato

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Slowly, you click the link.

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None of the lights in the tower are working. Not one. Most of them are candles. We're collectively baffled. On other baffling lights, today's flash fiction:

"There's a Light On in the Murder House" by Elle Symonds

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There are people that make you look at the link. It's us. We are people. Look at the link.

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The moon is looking at us funny. We're not sure what we've done to offend her so we're leaving offerings. Offerings in the form of excellent writing. Like today's poem.

"Spellwork" by @AmandaAdrienne

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Your finger traces the link. Click it.

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It is too hot in the tower at present. When we look outside, we expect to see flames or the interior of an oven. To stave off the heat, we're sinking down into soil, where it is damp & cool, & reading today's short story.

"No Children" by A. M. Larouche

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You're searching for the link. It's right here. Click it.

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We've been having strange dreams recently. Desolate pathways that lead nowhere, corridors that never end, disembodied voices telling to... Well, it's best we don't mention that. Have some flash instead. It's excellent.

"Liminal" by R.W. Owen

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We know you met the link. You should click it.

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The tower has sprouted in the middle of a yard sale. We send our apologies to the yard's owners as the tower has, unfortunately, destroyed their house. For a less disrupted market, today's poem...

"Mermaid at the Corner Market" by Nonbeaunary

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The link is always wild, but if you click it, it won't bite.

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The tower has been undertaking a June cleaning. We have found many things squirrelled away in its walls. Some of those things are, bafflingly and suddenly, alive. Speaking of new life, today's short story...

"Making a House a Home" by Katherine Lynch

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Under ordinary circumstances, you might not click the link. These are not ordinary circumstances.

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We're coming to you live from... Well, we're not quite sure. The tower has tucked us away for safekeeping. Luckily, we have some excellent flash fiction to read until it decides to set us free.

"Vestiges" by Carolyn R. Russell

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The link brings you home. You should click it.

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We at the tower have been doing palm readings. We don't know how to do palm readings, but everything is skewing to the positive so we're running with it. While we read your palms, you should read today's poem:

"Relativity" by Anika Tenneti

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