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Literature from the damaged end of the machine.

The machine has declined to comment.

Pink roadside motel building and sign in warm light
TOUCH THE EVIDENCE

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

Rot Report: The Avocado Window Closed Without Warning

At 10:14 it was stone. At 4:37 it was archaeology.

PRESS FOR REASSURANCE

Too late. You are already reading Broken Zine.

10:14 A.M. Avocado is hard enough to file taxes.

12:02 P.M. Still unusable. Displays contempt for toast.

2:46 P.M. Brief period of possibility suspected but not directly observed.

4:37 P.M. Brown interior. Structural collapse. Window officially closed.

The avocado maintains the narrowest acceptable-use period of any supermarket object.

Further monitoring is impossible because someone made guacamole out of spite.

Portrait artwork for VIC SLOANE

VIC SLOANE

Vic Sloane monitors decay, leftovers, neglected corners, and other systems already halfway through becoming folklore.

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.