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THE HANDBOOK FOR THE KALI YUGA TRANSFORMS. Seven Story Hotel continues, bringing you a fresh mix of interviews, plus essays, creative nonfiction, flash fiction, and poetry from back.stairs.ly, Koushik Banerjea, Malina Douglas, Daniel Gianfranceschi, Paranoia State, Diana Parilla, Matthew Pettefer, Sam Robinson, Lorraine Schein, and Michael Stringer, framed as always by a bevy of full color and] ]black-and-white art, photography, and collage from a talented collective of visual artists, this time featuring back.stairs.ly, Niko Belo, Ed Capos, Dame Darcy, Gavin Davis, Bret Hymer, Curse Mackey, Amuri Morris, Jeff Mann, NightFella, Paranoia State, Rachel Turney, Bill Wolack, and Amanda Yskamp. FEATURED INTERVIEWS: DUSTY GANNON, the founder and singular creative visionary behind post-punk icons Vision Video (and TikTok's ""Goth Dad""), speaks to us candidly and at length, for the first time in print, about his life before the music as a soldier in the Afghan War, the evils of the military industrial complex, wrestling existentialism, battling post-traumatic stress disorder, facing his demons as a paramedic in metro-Atlanta, the importance of therapy, healing through music, community organization and activism, and the role artists of substance play in combating the oppressive forces transforming our world into a technofascist hellscape. The Eisner award nominated creator of Meat Cake and practicing witch, DAME DARCY, one of the most quietly influential cartoonists in the world of indie comics, raconteurs about the highs and lows of the DIY art life (and how to hack it), being a 9/11 witness, the pros and cons of Saturn returns, crossroads and the goddess Hecate, Suck Dog, sea shanties, C.S. Lewis, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, black magic, and squaring off with Mormon cultists as an adolescent pagan growing up in Idaho. And we converse with DENIS POISSON, author of Hidden Paths and creator of the Foolish Fish YouTube Channel and Discord, about matters of philosophy and spirit, including Gnosticism, Christian Mysticism, Mystery Schools, the Divine Feminine, angels, Tantra, and ""fingers pointing at the moon.""

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Multimodal author and award-winning filmmaker Cliff Hensley is the Editor-in-Chief of indie publishing house Subtle Body Press, which he also co-founded. Aside from Co-Editing Seven Story Hotel, he is the Editor of the short fiction anthology series Body Shots and its novella-focused sister series, Body Lines. His most recent authorial work, the macabre horror 'prose LP' ""Now You See,"" was released in 2022 through Shiloh House Press, and a new novel is forthcoming. Cliff has also written for the world-renowned cyberpunk-fantasy tabletop roleplaying game Shadowrun and third-party adventures for doom-metal dungeon crawler Mörk Borg. Visit him online at www.cliffhensley.com, where you can also find convenient links to follow him on the social media outlet of your choice. Matthew Pettefer has been a lawyer, programmer, web developer, and a few other things in between. The Co-Editor of Seven Story Hotel for Subtle Body Press, Matthew is currently writing philosophy and poetry for what comes next. You can connect with him on X @AntipatternPC.

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