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• 24 April 2026

Practical Magic

Issue 5. Autumn of 1998

Stewart and Bill head into their senior year by recycling content and bickering over direction. A down-payment on another one at Salem’s Lot.

Practical Magic was sarcastically named after the recently released Sandra Bullock movie. For the cover Stewart sketched a hanging witch and pasted her onto an internet-lifted autumn background.
It was during this time that Stewart invented his dynamic wave-based encryption algorithm, which Seth later christened “STEW Encryption.” It began as a personal experiment which then became an extra-credit assignment for Calculus. Unfortunately the professor, Mr. Roe, had no patience for the demo, let alone the source code print-outs or background theory. Zero credit. But Stewart was awarded a provisional patent a few years later. The full utility patent is still pending.

Issue Contents

• Headlines
• Fairfield’s Own Tile Renters
• Text (Verse)
• Zine’s We’ve Passed Around
• Untitled (Verse)
• Interesting Facts
• No Shelter
• Another Little God Ditty
• Hollow-Weenie (UFOs)
• The Confessions of a Kleptomaniac
• Self-Censorship and Conditioning
• Government Conspiracies, Plutonium, and Your Life
• Cashing in on Feminism
• Casper’s Hacking Page (How to make $3 from $2)
• Tweed’s Mad Secret Phrase
• Tweed Authors
• Credits / Final Say

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