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The Devil tarot card represents being trapped and negative attachments. In A Tarot of Sorcery and Sages, this is represented by a haiku and a microfiction piece.

The haiku, “a strong appeal of” (after its first line), eschews the hoarding of wealth, a theme echoed in the microfiction piece, “Chrysopoeia.” The latter piece features a protagonist revealing the truth of an alchemist’s lies in an effort to free someone from his sway.

“Chrysopoeia” originally appeared in The Dire Dark in November 2022, while the haiku is original to A Tarot of Sorcery and Sages, where both sit alongside other poems and stories reflecting each of the Major Arcana of the tarot!

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