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Cy Dethan @cydethan.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

You prior interactions with turtles have been very different from mine...

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Nic Wilkinson @nicwilkinson.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Did you know @cydethan.bsky.social dedicated Bad Sector to me for #ValentinesDay? Now you can share the love with who - or what - ever holds your heart, too Or snuggle up & feel it for yourself Or show me your love by sharing my post ❤️ In hardback, paperback & Kindle. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DXCFDL2R

The cover of Bad Sector by Cy Dethan in a Valentine's Day heart against a red loveheart background.
The text on the top of the image reads "When it feels you're two halves of the same person..." in reference to Permanent Mark, the main character.
A quote from the book "Every moment this close to her reads like the last heartbeat before the attack..."
It looks like it was typed on an old typewriter on notepaper and stuck on with tape.
Up the side, vertical letters say "Get between the covers" and the author's website www.cydethan.com to find out more.

Book map showing the cover of Bad Sector by Cy Dethan with these words around it
Dystopia
Punk noir sci fi
The Expectation Office of Justice
Silicon and Scar tissue
Dead man's handle
Sentient City
A murderous cyberpunk identity crisis
Existential ultra violence
Augmented assassins
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DXCFDL2R

The first part of the back cover blurb which reads in full

Bad Sector by Cy Dethan

In the sentient city of Expectation, an augmented executioner hunts the murderer of Everyday Carrie, the Woman who Couldn’t Be Killed. Permanent Mark is going to solve this case if it kills him – again.

In Expectation, virtually all forms of criminality carry the same penalty: complete neurological rollback to the perpetrator’s last known ‘uncorrupted’ state. For offences beyond conventional remedy, offences against the mechanisms of justice itself, there are the Hangmen.

Erased from every surveillance and record-keeping system in Expectation and sharing his brain with a secondary consciousness known as an Advocate, Mark’s investigation sees him spilling blood in every corner of the self-building city, from its molecular reconstructions of Las Vegas and Paris to the scratch-built slums of East End London.

Stalked by allies and enemies alike, increasingly questioning the true nature and motives of the stranger in his skull, Mark finds himself lost and hunted in the organic rubble of the First City, the Precursor City, the living ruins of Aspiration.

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Nic Wilkinson @nicwilkinson.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

So by now I'm well used to bits of @cydethan.bsky.social's writing leaking into the world & causing mischief but having an a week long fight with an actual *bad sector* in his PC is beyond the universe having a bit of a laugh! You can find the troublesome thing here www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DXCFDL2R

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Cy Dethan @cydethan.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Working title of the one I'm writing now is Scratch Space. It's a semi-direct pre/sequel to Bad Sector, featuring new characters - along with a few familiar faces. Beyond that, there's at least one more Expectation novel in the works, but that one's still very much in the planning phase for now.

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Nic Wilkinson @nicwilkinson.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

I've heard it's #NationalScienceFictionDay ...so if you'd like a murder mystery punk sci-fi thriller may I recommend Bad Sector by @cydethan.bsky.social It's the first book we put out from CyNic Stories. Follow the link below to get it on KU or in soft or hardcover. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DXCFDL2R

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Nic Wilkinson @nicwilkinson.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Here is the last of my heated wax "paintings" inspired by Bad Sector by @cydethan.bsky.social Here's a link to buy/download the book if want a bit of murderous punk sci-fi existentialism in your stocking - and to make our xmas wishes come true🎄 www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DXCFDL2R 14/14 #sci-fi #xmas

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Nic Wilkinson @nicwilkinson.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Since February I've been using heated wax to "paint" a series of pictures inspired by Bad Sector by @cydethan.bsky.social I'm sharing one a day til Christmas Eve. Here's a link - makes your Christmas shopping easier, right?🎄 Or treat yourself - you deserve it www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DXCFDL2R 13/14

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Nic Wilkinson @nicwilkinson.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Since February I've been using heated wax to "paint" a series of pictures inspired by Bad Sector by @cydethan.bsky.social I'm sharing one a day til Christmas Eve. Here's a link to grab the book - makes your Xmas shopping easier, right?🎄 www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DXCFDL2R 12/14 #sci-fi #books #gifts

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Nic Wilkinson @nicwilkinson.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Since February I've been using heated wax to "paint" a series of pictures inspired by Bad Sector by @cydethan.bsky.social This one is probably my favourite (ssh, don't tell the others) There's a link pinned on my wall if you want to buy it and make a friend's Christmas, your day or me happy🎄 11/14

"Silicon and Scar Tissue" a wax painting by Nic Wilkinson inspired by the sci-fi thriller Bad Sector by Cy Dethan

In the sentient city of Expectation, an augmented executioner hunts the murderer of Everyday Carrie, the Woman who Couldn’t Be Killed. Permanent Mark is going to solve this case if it kills him – again.

In Expectation, virtually all forms of criminality carry the same penalty: complete neurological rollback to the perpetrator’s last known ‘uncorrupted’ state. For offences beyond conventional remedy, offences against the mechanisms of justice itself, there are the Hangmen.

Erased from every surveillance and record-keeping system in Expectation and sharing his brain with a secondary consciousness known as an Advocate, Mark’s investigation sees him spilling blood in every corner of the self-building city, from its molecular reconstructions of Las Vegas and Paris to the scratch-built slums of East End London.

Stalked by allies and enemies alike, increasingly questioning the true nature and motives of the stranger in his skull, Mark finds himself lost and hunted in the organic rubble of the First City, the Precursor City, the living ruins of Aspiration.

Bad Sector is noir-inflected punk science fiction, an existential anthem of silicon and scar tissue.

“Bad Sector is the future you didn’t see coming. It’s not just the future of resisting urban oppression, augmented human consciousness and extreme ultra-violence…it’s the future of ever genre you’ve ever loved. Grab it with both hands, before it takes you down without you ever seeing it coming”
Jasper Bark

Now available on Amazon in hardback, paperback and Kindle.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DXCFDL2R

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Nic Wilkinson @nicwilkinson.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Since February I've been using heated wax to "paint" a series of pictures inspired by Bad Sector by @cydethan.bsky.social I'm sharing one per day from now til Christmas Eve. There's a link on my wall if you want a taste. Kindle, KU, paper or hardback- you can even read a few preview chapters 10/14

"Like murder, like music, like home" wax painting by Nic Wilkinson inspired by a quote from Bad Sector by Cy Dethan

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Nic Wilkinson @nicwilkinson.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Since February I've been using heated wax to "paint" a series of pictures inspired by Bad Sector by @cydethan.bsky.social I'm sharing one per day from now til Christmas Eve. There's a link pinned on my wall if you want to get a dose Kindle, KU, paper or hardback 8/14 #BooksForChristmas #scifi

"Hangman's Medicine" encaustic wax art by Nic Wilkinson, inspired by the sci-fi novel Bad Sector by Cy Dethan

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Nic Wilkinson @nicwilkinson.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Since February I've been using heated wax to "paint" a series of pictures inspired by Bad Sector by @cydethan.bsky.social I'm sharing one per day from now til Christmas Eve. There's a link pinned on my wall if you want to get a copy and make all of our Christmases better. 8/14

Encaustic wax art "No one leaves here in any body but their own" by Nic Wilkinson, inspired by the cyberpunk novel Bad Sector by Cy Dethan.

Bad Sector by Cy Dethan

In the sentient city of Expectation, an augmented executioner hunts the murderer of Everyday Carrie, the Woman who Couldn’t Be Killed. Permanent Mark is going to solve this case if it kills him – again.

In Expectation, virtually all forms of criminality carry the same penalty: complete neurological rollback to the perpetrator’s last known ‘uncorrupted’ state. For offences beyond conventional remedy, offences against the mechanisms of justice itself, there are the Hangmen.

Erased from every surveillance and record-keeping system in Expectation and sharing his brain with a secondary consciousness known as an Advocate, Mark’s investigation sees him spilling blood in every corner of the self-building city, from its molecular reconstructions of Las Vegas and Paris to the scratch-built slums of East End London.

Stalked by allies and enemies alike, increasingly questioning the true nature and motives of the stranger in his skull, Mark finds himself lost and hunted in the organic rubble of the First City, the Precursor City, the living ruins of Aspiration.

Bad Sector is noir-inflected punk science fiction, an existential anthem of silicon and scar tissue.

“Bad Sector is the future you didn’t see coming. It’s not just the future of resisting urban oppression, augmented human consciousness and extreme ultra-violence…it’s the future of ever genre you’ve ever loved. Grab it with both hands, before it takes you down without you ever seeing it coming”
Jasper Bark

Now available on Amazon in hardback, paperback and Kindle.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DXCFDL2R

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Nic Wilkinson @nicwilkinson.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Since February I've been using heated wax to "paint" a series of pictures inspired by Bad Sector by @cydethan.bsky.social I'm sharing one per day from now til Christmas Eve. There's a link pinned on my wall if you want her in your head, too. Kindle, KU, paper or hardback 7/14

Encaustic wax art "Thinking about Iris" by Nic Wilkinson, part of a series inspired by the cyberpunk thriller Bad Sector by Cy Dethan.

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Nic Wilkinson @nicwilkinson.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

I've been using heated wax to "paint" a series of pictures inspired by Bad Sector by @cydethan.bsky.social I'm sharing one per day til Christmas Eve. This bit made me cry. There's a link pinned on my wall if you want to see what it does for you. Everyone gets a bit emotional at Christmas 🎄 4/14

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Nic Wilkinson @nicwilkinson.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Since February I've been using heated wax to "paint" a series of pictures inspired by Bad Sector by @cydethan.bsky.social I'm sharing one per day from now til Christmas Eve. Is this advice you'd follow? See how it turns out at the link in pinned post. #Treat yourself for #Christmas #scifi 🎄 3/14

"Go in fifth, you'll make it out alive" an encaustic wax painting by Nic Wilkinson, inspired by the sci-fi thriller Bad Sector by Cy Dethan

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Nic Wilkinson @nicwilkinson.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

I've been using heated wax to "paint" a series of pictures inspired by Bad Sector by @cydethan.bsky.social I'm sharing one a day til Xmas Eve. This one's inspired by the Hangman Gracious Victor. If you want to to see if how he feels to you see pinned post. Or share it...it's nearly Christmas 2/14

An abstract encaustic art piece by Nic Wilkinson entitled "Put Together Wrong", inspired by the cyberpunk novel Bad Sector by Cy Dethan.

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Nic Wilkinson @nicwilkinson.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

I have waxed two more pieces inspired by @cydethan.bsky.social 's Bad Sector. They are "Fall Without Fear" And "BOOM, BOOM, BOOM" To understand them and their titles you'll have to read the book...which you can find pinned on my feed.

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Nic Wilkinson @nicwilkinson.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Look at Polar Star! He knows a good thing when he sees it. Be like Polar Star and get your paws on Bad Sector by @cydethan.bsky.social now! Link pinned on feed

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Cy Dethan @cydethan.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Phantom Lung & the Garden of Dead Liars #2 is out! Thrill as the body-swapping superspy wages war against his Cold War creators! Features chess-murder and a spirited game of Pin the Bullet on the Bad Guy. Art: Malacarne Letters: Nic Wilkinson Story: me. www.drivethrucomics.com/en/product/5...

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Phantom Lung & the Garden of Dead Liars #2 - AAM Markosia | DriveThruComics

Kidnapped and interrogated by the bizarrely theatrical Baron Wasteland, Ellen Gibson walks a knife's edge to save more than just her own life. Meanwhile, the mysterious Phantom Lung stretches his para...

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Cy Dethan @cydethan.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Some anonymous clown seems to be going to a lot of trouble to get me to answer calls from unknown numbers this week. Two in the space of a minute this morning alone. Mate, I barely even pick up for people I know. I'd basically forgotten my ancient Galaxy S10 still retained that vestigial function.

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Nic Wilkinson @nicwilkinson.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

That's my boy @cydethan.bsky.social! ❤️ Link in pinned post if you want your own brain melting.

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Nic Wilkinson @nicwilkinson.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

What's this over on Down The Tubes? A round up of @cydethan.bsky.social 's latest projects downthetubes.net/cy-dethans-n... Also an interview about his recently released novel "Bad Sector" on Sci Fi Pulse www.scifipulse.net/cy-dethan-ta... It's just past pay day...you know what to do...

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Cy Dethan’s new novel, “Bad Sector” in the spotlight

Cy Dethan’s latest projects investigated

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Nic Wilkinson @nicwilkinson.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Roll up, Roll up! The next issue of Powers Fearful and Divine by @cydethan.bsky.social RHStewart and me is finally on Kickstarter! It's all complete & it was fully funded before I got the chance to type this! There's bundles with the previous issues as well. www.kickstarter.com/projects/sim...

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Powers Fearful and Divine 1-4 - A New Extraordinary League

Houdini, Lovecraft and Conan Doyle battle for control of the 20th century, embodied by a twisted, half-mechanical Victor Frankenstein.

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Cy Dethan @cydethan.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

My brain just loudly interrupted my day to remind me about telephone engaged tones. We've had no landline since about 2010, and use mobiles as phones so rarely that the idea of needing a specific sound to tell you that two people were trying to ring you *at the same time* feels like science fiction.

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Cy Dethan @cydethan.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Thanks, Dion. Really glad you're enjoying it.

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Nic Wilkinson @nicwilkinson.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

The Last Free Mind In Expectation. My wax painting done today. I am emotionally exhausted by it. If you want to know what it all means you'll have to read Bad Sector by @cydethan.bsky.social, which inspired it. (Link in pinned post)

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Cy Dethan @cydethan.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Hey - I got asked to write another booklist. Find out what links Stalenhag's The Electric State with Metal Made Flesh by Jeremy Biggs and Simeon Aston. booklisti.com/booklist/bei... ...while you're at it, feel free to bag a copy of my transhumanist noir baby, Bad Sector (amzn.eu/d/01ViEGb).

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Being Human in Dehumanising Worlds

I’m always drawn to outsiders and outcasts in fiction. Unreliable narrators at odds with their worlds and themselves, struggling to come to terms with an everyday existence that alienates them. The wo...

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Cy Dethan @cydethan.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Thanks, mate. Much appreciated.

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Cy Dethan @cydethan.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

P M Buchan put out an interview with me on his excellent If You Go Away Substack. It covers my new novel Bad Sector and a bunch of my most ambitiously incoherent thoughts on writing, magic, comics and the ever-amazing @nicwilkinson.bsky.social pmbuchan.substack.com/p/meet-autho...

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Meet author Cy Dethan

"I like to play on the narratological intersection where Fucking Around meets Finding Out." Cy Dethan is a British writer and former professional magician, who began writing Starship Troopers comics i...

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Cy Dethan @cydethan.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

In urgent need of some salted caramel chocolate, a pack of medical gloves and 24 cans of vanilla Coke Zero? You're in luck! Adding those 3 items *PLUS ONE COPY OF BAD SECTOR* to the same Amazon shopping cart somehow gets you a 5% discount! www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DXCFDL2...

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Cy Dethan @cydethan.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Love that insane-looking keyboard.

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Cy Dethan @cydethan.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Thanks to @markosia.bsky.social, home of almost all of my creator-owned comics, for the shout-out!

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Cy Dethan @cydethan.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Bad Sector by Cy Dethan In the sentient city of Expectation, an augmented executioner hunts the murderer of Everyday Carrie - The Woman Who Couldn’t Be Killed. Permanent Mark is going to solve this case if it kills him… again. Now available on Amazon www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DXCFDL2R

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Bad Sector

Buy Bad Sector by Dethan, Cy (ISBN: 9798308993360) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

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Cy Dethan @cydethan.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

I am experiencing emotions...

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Cy Dethan @cydethan.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I know, right? In percentage terms, it's lower than you'd typically expect from an actual conversation with me. 😀

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Nic Wilkinson @nicwilkinson.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

It's snowing! 3D static in the garden as world recalibrates reality to tune in the publication of @cydethan.bsky.social's book, Bad Sector. "The sky above the carport was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel", you might say....

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Cy Dethan @cydethan.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Aargh - Bad Sector just went live in print and digital on Amazon! Over 110,000 words and only 55 of them are "cunt". amzn.eu/d/9b3bPW5

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Bad Sector

Buy Bad Sector by Dethan, Cy (ISBN: 9798308993360) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

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Cy Dethan @cydethan.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Oh, nice! Thanks for the heads-up.

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Cy Dethan @cydethan.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I generally use an app called NewPipe on my phone and stream it to my TV. No adverts, no sign-in needed and a few other nice features on top.

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Markosia @markosia.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Markosia Mailing #354 - Hollow Girl, Immortalis, The Kindness of Killers are much more! us17.campaign-archive.com?u=d4884849a7... Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here: eepurl.com/dmNNyP

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Cy Dethan @cydethan.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Another launch: paranormal body-swap espionage thriller, Phantom Lung & the Garden of Dead Liars #1 by Malacarne, @nicwilkinson.bsky.social and me. The last product of Cold War remote viewing experimentation resurfaces, leaving a trail of borrowed, stolen and murdered bodies in his wake.

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Phantom Lung & the Garden of Dead Liars #1

Phantom Lung & the Garden of Dead Liars #1 eBook : Cy Dethan, Malacarne: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

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Cy Dethan @cydethan.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Pretty big comics day for me, with TWO new issues launching. Here's issue #2 of The Kindness of Killers by Markus Pattern , @nicwilkinson.bsky.social Wilkinson and me. Swords, samurai and severed limbs - with just a hint of quantum-entanglement blood magic...

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The Kindness of Killers #2

The Kindness of Killers #2 eBook : Cy Dethan, Markus Pattern: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

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Cy Dethan @cydethan.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Right - so that's the Kindle Direct Publishing account sorted. Now to wrestle this 110,000‐word monstrosity up there into it...

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Cy Dethan @cydethan.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

[GASP] You know too much... 😳

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Cy Dethan @cydethan.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

If you thought that was a bizarre combo, wait until you hear about my new Cold War body-swap serial killer book, coming soon from @markosia.bsky.social... 😀

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