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Vol. I · No. 1Prolonging the Slow Death of NewspapersEst. 2026

Watching Over Alcatraz

the man with the flashlight

Read John M. Glionna's story (thanks, Cory): One night, as the buoy bells clanged and the foghorn moaned, he swore he heard clinking glasses, as if a toast were being made. He hears mice skitter on cellblock floors, and the wind howling outside often seems like crazy laughter.



"This is one creepy place after dark," he said. "It can make the hair on the back of your neck stand up straight."

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