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Recent Examples of furlessOn a plywood bookshelf above the twin bed sat a dozen teddy bears of varying age and quality, some patchy and furless.—Literary Hub,
15 Oct. 2025
Long ago, the blue-skinned inhabitants committed genocide against a race of purple-skinned aliens and buried their bones beneath the earth, an event in which Krem was involved.
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Nick Romano,
Entertainment Weekly,
26 June 2026
Somewhere in the middle of this Los Angeles neo-noir, Colin Farrell’s quiet, well-dressed, cinema-loving private eye was revealed to be a blue-skinned alien — then the show just kept going, missing-persons mystery intact.
Out back, a small sewage-treatment plant converts bodily waste from two flanking portable toilets into purified water, which is piped into a large tank in which yet another unclothed woman, wearing a scuba mouthpiece, floats for four hours at a time.
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Sebastian Smee,
The Atlantic,
16 May 2026
Investigators said some female victims were found naked or partially unclothed, with evidence of severe mutilation and objects including grenades, nails and household tools inserted into their bodies.