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The Rosy Mirror

by S. Patrick Cunningham

The Rosy Mirror publishes new episodes of epic paranoir serial audio fiction every Tuesday at 3. Now playing: a symphony in prose, Silence Fell, the dark and alluring saga of Cadence Marie Cheerslaughter.Time and place: the City of Los Angeles, first quarter of the 21st century.Something stinks in the city streets, even worse than the homeless. Wealthy developers make and remake the luxury face of Hollywood, while downtown is overwhelmed with the unhoused. LAPD is hiring all applicants, no questions asked, barely maintaining order.An interconnected network of tarps, boards, and other makeshift shelters has completely overtaken Skid Row, and the cops have largely abandoned the district. Chaos reigns within. And yet something new, a movement perhaps, is struggling to be born. Deep inside Tent City, in the heart of Skid Row, the homeless are organizing.At first, the Mayor insisted the Movement was a myth. Then he tried to say it was just a bunch of thugs. Still he can't acknowledge th