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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.

NOISE DEPARTMENT

Noise Department: The Official Playlist for Losing Your Keys

Three phases: confidence, accusation, surrender.

PRESS FOR REASSURANCE

Too late. You are already reading Broken Zine.

No autoplay. Three seconds of bad decisions.

1. CONFIDENCE. Play something upbeat while checking the obvious places. Pocket. Table. Counter.

2. ACCUSATION. Switch to percussion-heavy music while blaming everyone who has entered the house since Thursday.

3. SURRENDER. One slow song while sitting on the couch and considering whether keys are a social construct.

Then stand up.

The keys are under you.

They were always under you.

Do not apologize to anyone you accused. It will weaken the narrative.

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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.