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Literature from the damaged end of the machine.

The machine has declined to comment.

Vintage cassette tape and analog recording equipment
TOUCH THE EVIDENCE

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

NOISE DEPARTMENT

Noise Department: Songs for Ignoring the Check Engine Light

A three-song program for motorists practicing automotive denial.

PRESS FOR REASSURANCE

Too late. You are already reading Broken Zine.

No autoplay. It gets worse on purpose.

TRACK ONE: Something Loud Enough to Compete With Mechanical Reality.

The check engine light has appeared. Turn up the music until diagnostics become a philosophical question.

TRACK TWO: The Song You Played in High School.

This reminds the vehicle that both of you have survived worse maintenance decisions.

TRACK THREE: Silence.

Turn everything off. Listen.

Was that clicking always there?

No.

It was not.

Schedule the mechanic.

Portrait artwork for DARNELL PRICE

DARNELL PRICE

Darnell Price handles music, noise, bad speakers, suspicious playlists, and recorded things that outlive their owners.

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.