The Baddy and the Dupe

October 2026

Superpresent Magazine, Fall 2026
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“…I resisted the theory he was love sore. I didn’t consider myself worthy of that kind of self-flagellation from a man old enough to know better. I told myself it he’d got an acting break and stuck a plaster over any other possibilities. I had misread everything, he had got a part in a play or a TV ad, or even some voice work, though he would have considered it beneath him.”