"After Dinner Conversation" Magazine - September 2021

Evening Star:  Two bullied school children decide to reveal their true selves to their classmates and suffer the consequences.

Conscience Cleaners:  A genuinely repentant criminal appeals to the court to have his memory erased of the crime he committed.

The Room Above:  A convicted criminal wakes to an erased memory and finds he is part of a strange government rehabilitation program.

Appreciating Hate: Police do a wellness check to a home and find a man who has been systematically working to remove art that glorifies the vile.

The Showing:  A real estate agent tries to sell a haunted home and must come to terms with the homes past.

How The Cockroach Lost Its Voice (Children's Story):  A talking cockroach takes his nephew to the top of the refrigerator to survey the world, and discuss the unhappy humans with three eyes.

Prohibition:  A wealthy addict heads to a seedy part of town for his fix and gets more than he bargained for.

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