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Literature from the damaged end of the machine.

The machine has declined to comment.

Artwork for Break Room Anthropology: The Refrigerator Door
TOUCH THE EVIDENCE

Nothing happened. That is exactly what it wants you to think.

Break Room Anthropology: The Refrigerator Door

Cal Bender reads a workplace fridge as a civilization in decline.

PRESS FOR REASSURANCE

Too late. You are already reading Broken Zine.

The office refrigerator contains six sauces, four yogurts, one lunch nobody remembers owning, and a handwritten note that begins with “PLEASE RESPECT.”

No society has ever been closer to collapse.

The mustard remains neutral.

Portrait artwork for MARCY COIL

MARCY COIL

Marcy Coil documents ordinary behavior after it has been left unattended too long. Her desk contains three pens and one grievance.

Push something. The magazine is poorly supervised.

PUSH THE WEIRD BUTTON

A small bureaucrat somewhere just stamped APPROVED FOR NONSENSE.

MORE BROKEN ZINEBAD IDEA ARCADEODDITIES

ASK THE EDITOR A QUESTION

NO.

BROKEN ZINESOME THINGS SHOULDN’T BE FIXED.

DO NOT PRESS

YOU FOUND THE FOOTER. PLEASE LEAVE QUIETLY.