A Magazine of Many Arts

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Two tickets to the opening performance of La Terrestrienne.
A miniature sarcophagus carved from Denebian chrysoprase.
Four silk shirts, dyed in unfamiliar colors and subtly mis-cut.
Self-inserting unhemmed wormhole pockets (donâ€™t match shirts).
A velvet-lined case containing 3 uncut amethysts.
On closer inspection, inclusions in the flawed stones wriggle.
A lyre whose frame has bitten all who tried to grasp it.
Books bound in scaled skin. All pages are black. Some stick together.
An angular brass whistle bearing the image of something like a dog.
A pamphlet explaining how to exorcise the thing like a dog,
once the whistle has summoned it. The last pages are missing
and appear to have been both burnt and chewed off.
A sensory dodecahedron half-full of tourist vidrecordings.
In the last recording (calm sea, deck chairs, solicitous stewards)
a whistle is heard. Then there is screaming.

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