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Victoria Lucchese has been sent to find the forks. Instead she opens the wrong drawer in Leona’s kitchen and finds the spices: coriander, oregano, marjoram, thyme. She knows from a library book that coriander is the seed of the cilantro plant, but she has never tasted it knowingly, so she unscrews the lid and smells […]

Seven hours into her shift as Mental Patient 17, Mara Jacobs climbs onto the back of a prop cabinet in a fake cafeteria to loom over the evening’s visitors. The group is led by a girl in a violet dress whom Mara recognises from every feed she has ever scrolled. The scare works for about […]

In the courtyard of the château, the orange trees have bronze trunks and fruit of blown glass. Beneath one of them lies a golden oriole, its belly split, as if it bit into an ornament and cut itself open from the inside. The man beside Genevieve de Vienne tells her, in English, to leave it. […]

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The prince is a prisoner in a walled courtyard, and he will only guide the party south if he is trusted. Yining does not trust him. She takes a small red pepper from her pouch, webbed with fine lines, and tells him it is a slow poison to which only she holds the cure. To […]

A defensive lineman the size of a refrigerator bursts into a teammate’s bedroom on the morning after the big parties, two black words stencilled across his forehead, and starts slamming chemistry textbooks onto the carpet. In the bed, wrapped in a sheet, an art student named Pammy quietly lifts her phone and films him. By […]