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![Cartoon by Stephen Collins for the Guardian, here's the script:
[Scene is the inside of a SOUP. Some CARROTS and BITS OF BROCCOLI are floating around and a STOCK CUBE and a BAY LEAF have just been dropped in.]
1
STOCK CUBE:
Alright lads - this is Bay Leaf.
My colleague from the spice rack.
2
BROCCOLI:
Hi Bay Leaf
BAY LEAF:
Yuh yuh hi
3
CARROTS:
You up for getting proper blended with us later, Bay Leaf?
BAY LEAF:
Nuh mate, getting scooped out before soup stage.
4
CARROTS:
Oh! So… you’re not being eaten then?
BAY LEAF:
Eaten! Haha
5
BAY LEAF:
Not allowed mate.
I’m afraid I’m a lil’ bit *toooo intense*...
6
BAY LEAF:
Just here for the flavour hit.
Special forces, y’know.
That’s why there’s just one of me.
7
BAY LEAF:
Over-deploy and you’d have this whole soup stiiinking of bay leaf…
8
BAY LEAF:
You might wanna stand back actually.
This place is about to get preeetty bay leafy...
9
[Silent pause]
10
CARROTS:
Are you doing something
BAY LEAF:
Sure am mate.
11
BAY LEAF:
Suuuuure am.
12
BAY LEAF [Getting scooped out by chef’s spoon]:
You need training to perceive it.
CARROTS:
OK](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreibguu2d74i7v7yrkx2z5vsiluhrnkp2uayri2gmcm4gpl4d3dvlgq)
![Contents page:
Contents
The Rejuvenation Business 7
(first published by Punk Noir)
Sonneillon [Transcript of Claire’s Scares, October 23rd, 2023] 23
(first published by Exposed Bone)
Men o’ the Sea 38
(first published by Cloister Fox)
ManTheFuckUp 56
(first published by Bag of Bones Press)
The Scissorman 73
(first published by Solar Press)
The Greys 90
(first published by Wrong Publications)
Like a Different Species 106
(first published by DarkWinter Lit)
Transcendence in an Oblong Room 121
(first published by Acid Bath Publishing)
That’ll Be the Day 133
(first published by Black Glass Pages)
The Festering Filth That Sloshed Inside 154
(first published by Dark Holme Publishing)
All Up in Him 179
You Were Here 187
(first published by The Winged Moon)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ta3xhopsk4hqzkhwkxouqflj/bafkreiekkb5nlz6gddgdmtgxrskfgfaug2kisvp447pc2ijsjq3kljwf4e)
