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Short Fiction
Tonya Liburd

Hoodie

She puts on a stoic face and lifts her red hoodie over her head in unconscious defensiveness against a coming threat, but these microaggressions always hurt. Just that little bit. Enough to register, and trigger the front she has to make.

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a poster for apex magazine with a woman holding a glowing ball.
Short Fiction
Tonya Liburd

The Ace of Knives

They say that the manifestation of one’s magic is determined by the crucial events and influences—internal and external—surrounding one’s special time which happened during puberty. Signs and markers can help point out specifically when one’s special time will manifest; but the Ace of Knives was alone.

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