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FictionCidade MaravilhosaIn a Copacabana where no one alive remembers what a subway was, a man walks down an alley with the last of the week's rations in his backpack — and a child looks at it. A dystopian short story about the price of one more day. "Cidade Maravilhosa" (Wonderful City) is Rio de Janeiro's anthem.

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This future where the city rots on top of its own past has illustrious relatives on the shelf — the BRAZILIAN dystopia that saw it all coming, and the people-grinding machine that invented the genre 👇

FictionAlistairIn a suburb of London, a middle-aged tortoise crosses the pavement at three metres an hour. Nobody is watching him — and that suits him. A tale about patience, humiliation, and the slowest weapon in the world.

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Enjoyed Alistair? He has two literary fathers. Patricia Highsmith invented the narrator who follows a methodical amoral man without ever judging him — and Orwell showed what happens when animals understand power 👇

FictionShadowOn the eleventh day crossing a steppe where the sun does not move and nothing casts a shadow, a traveler sees the only dark patch for leagues of plain — and walks toward it. A cosmic-horror tale about the price of shade.

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Loved this horror of a motionless sun and impossible ecology? It converses with two classics of the weird — the nature that returns its expeditions as shadows, and the light that came from space to corrupt 👇

FictionThe Eye of Namar-KethA medallion found among the belongings of a vanished professor reproduces a pre-human symbol: an eye ringed by concentric circles, crossed by a single vertical line. A cosmic-horror tale about doors that should never be opened — and about what watches from the other side.

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Enjoyed the cosmic dread of Namar-Keth? It drinks straight from the well of H.P. Lovecraft — the master of the horror of the unknown, of indifferent gods and truths the human mind was never meant to reach 👇