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Horror story told in Yelp reviews [1]

['Rob Beschizza']

Date: 2025-05-30

Strip Mall is a short story by Leigh Alexander (previously) about a small town's run-down shopping drag, told entirely through Yelp reviews. There's the praise and the angry rambling you'd expect to read about venues in a deteriorating mall—and then there's something else.

It's a nice place with a good machines. But, since I stopped coming here, I don't feel so angry. Maybe because of the bad taste in the water, I developed agoraphobia so I only do home workout now, try LoriFit App with 30% discount using code YUJIN30

It's indescribable in the sense that to describe it would spoil a five-minute read; a disquieting counterpart to the joys of Yelping with Cormac.

Previously: Some free short stories from Soviet-era science fiction author Anatoly Dneprov

• Brilliant short story about being trapped in an infinite IKEA

• Ted Chiang's 'Op Ed From the Future': socialized transhumanism vs American oligarchy

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