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Horror story told in Yelp reviews

Horror story told in Yelp reviews

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May 30, 2025
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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 st…

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