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We open this month with a truly once-in-a-lifetime ecliptic occurrence in “Ipomoea Sanguineus.” Then a lonely man finds strange company when he calls a phone chat service in “Party-Line” by Rik Hoskin. A beautiful and ethereal transition from life to death follows in “The Leaking World” before something terrifying washes ashore in “Empty Shells On a Cold Shore.” Step into the shoes of a freshly cloned house pet in our utterly weird stream of consciousness called “A Clone’s Tale” before warping time in the pond out back in “Echo Lake.” Relationships between mothers and daughters can be complicated. Witness a relationship spanning eons in “Rumination” before we wrap things up with a tale of retribution and regret in “Vengeance is a Patient Beast.”