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Literature from the damaged end of the machine.

The machine has declined to comment.

Warm colorful street scene with a person walking past motorcycles
TOUCH THE EVIDENCE

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

Fragment: Instructions Found Behind the Dryer

Someone left directions. They become less practical after step three.

PRESS FOR REASSURANCE

Too late. You are already reading Broken Zine.

1. Unplug machine.

2. Pull dryer six inches from wall.

3. Retrieve missing sock.

4. If there are two missing socks, take only the one you remember.

5. Do not look through the gap after midnight.

6. If someone on the other side asks whether Thursday has happened yet, say no.

7. Push dryer back.

8. Plug machine in.

9. Wash hands.

10. Forget this.

Portrait artwork for THEO FINCH

THEO FINCH

Theo Finch collects fragments, overheard weather, damaged instructions, and sentences that refuse to become useful.

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.