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Literature from the damaged end of the machine.

The machine has declined to comment.

Warm cluttered desk with art supplies and plants
TOUCH THE EVIDENCE

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

Useful / Useless No. 2: The Wooden Spoon

Five uses. One threat. Zero batteries.

PRESS FOR REASSURANCE

Too late. You are already reading Broken Zine.

USEFUL: stirring soup.

USEFUL: rescuing pasta from boiling water when all other utensils are dirty.

QUESTIONABLE: pointing at someone during an argument to add rustic authority.

USELESS: measuring anything with precision.

POWERFUL: leaving it across the top of a pot as if this proves you understand cooking.

Final rating: 8/10. Ancient technology. Excellent silhouette. Still undefeated by apps.

Portrait artwork for MARCY COIL

MARCY COIL

Marcy Coil tests ordinary objects for usefulness, uselessness, emotional leverage, and unexpected second careers.

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.