The complete April issue is available in the shop—all three satirical stories by AJ Rhino, plus every feature piece, laid out in a magazine format designed to actually look good on your screen.

This month's issue, Satire as a Weapon, is packaged in a PDF you keep. Read it on your tablet, your phone, or your laptop.

What's inside:

  1. Original short stories by AJ Rhino: The Resume, The Team, and The Watcher
  2. Feature: American Fiction and the Absurdity of Woke
  3. Commentary: The Darkness is the Joke: The Death of Stalin
  4. Essay: Absurdity and Tyranny in Stalinist Russia
  5. Satire: Fight the Literary Power with Dude Wipes
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Thanks for reading! New articles and a new short story for May's issue, Surviving the Apocalypse, start next week.

—Kristin

Black Market Fiction, EIC