{"id":100043525,"date":"2026-03-30T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.neondystopia.com\/?p=100043525"},"modified":"2026-03-30T00:47:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T00:47:42","slug":"close-to-open-by-sam-o-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neondystopia.com\/?p=100043525","title":{"rendered":"Close to Open by Sam O. Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This story originally appeared 1000 years ago in the long dead L0WL1F3 Magazine, a fiction zine CoinOps and Scum created before Scum worked for Neon Dystopia. Now, as a special, here are all 3 stories CoinOps wrote in the form of jpegs that Scum created back when he still remembered how to use InDesign. We will return to regular broadcasts next month.<\/em> Thank you for taking this ride with us for so many years. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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