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Winter 2023 • Vol. XLV No. 1 • Bridges: A Fiction Folio |

The Snuff Box of Mr. ——

By Tom Comitta

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Tom Comitta is the author of The Nature Book (forthcoming from Coffee House Press in 2023), 〇 (Ugly Duckling Presse), Airport Novella (Troll Thread), and First Thought Worst Thought: Collected Books 2011–2014 (Gauss PDF), a print and digital archive of forty “night novels,” art books, and poetry collections. Their fiction and essays have appeared in WIRED, Lit Hub, Electric Literature, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Believer, BOMB, and BAX 2020: Best American Experimental Writing. Comitta lives in Brooklyn.

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