It has been 11 years since I published my first short story. I remember clearly the euphoria I had while drafting, and even more so the sense of cringe I felt when I read it a couple days later to start editing. But that’s a story for another day. It was a measly 900~ words, not so dissimilar to the first story I posted under this account (1.5k). Sure, I did have some experience in the sense that…
After having a look at the dart board (click here to see the question), here is the answer to the question on the difference between AT, IN, and ON for Place: It is very obvious when looking at the AI-generated picture what the difference is. For instance, when we look at: AT: AT has to … Continue reading At, In, On (Place): Answers and Activities →
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The Vampire with a Blanket of Stars is available on Kindle and Paperback Please note: Vampire Princess of New York which precedes this book is currently being revised is not currently for sale. So we continue here with The Vampire … Continue reading →
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Substack is convenient, but treat it as a distribution tool for your content. Your content should live on an independently owned website, which has a domain name you control and own. This way, you can secure long-term visibility and control over your digital presence on the Internet.
Graham Platner will kick off starts his first general election at one of the lowest points of his upstart Senate campaign. There has been nonstop coverage, both in Maine and nationally, about racy text messages he sent to women who aren’t his wife, as well as his alleged callous treatment of ex-girlfriends. That drumbeat helped lead to Tuesday’s election results, in which about 20 percent of…
📺🗡️ A Practical Guide to the CBS Boycott… When Paramount Global and CBS News agreed to pay Donald Trump roughly $16 million to settle a lawsuit that legal scholars across the ideological spectrum widely regarded as meritless, they did not merely close a legal dispute. They established a price. A sitting president sued a major … Continue reading How to Boycott CBS and Paramount/Skydance →
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Early summer, year 20XX
This post is a follow-up to an earlier anon submission –editor Stop Watering Dead Flowers I have been walking through the long dusk since the burn. Smoke still in my lungs. It has been almost a year since the last time I wrote about it. Ghosts of what should have been, scattered in the corners. […]
We went down the steps to his basement and that was where Tom showed me the machine. He said he’d been feeding it Shakespeare, buying up all the charity-shop paperbacks and tossing them in the front hatch. Looked a bit like a pizza oven, but plated in chrome and with a faint whirring sound you […]
We went down the steps to his basement and that was where Tom showed me the machine. He said he’d been feeding it Shakespeare, buying up all the charity-shop paperbacks and tossing them in the front hatch. Looked a bit like a pizza oven, but plated in chrome and with a faint whirring sound you […]
_Granta_ ’s Commonwealth Prize controversy reveals a literary culture struggling to defend its own values
The post The Real Scandal Isn’t That AI Wrote a Prize-Winning Story. It’s the Response first appeared on The Walrus.
this is the first in my firstframe visual poetry series. you’ll be able to tell by the incongruent naming convention that i’ll be establishing. in the future, this might become a subscriber-only kind of thing. thanks for reading! luca
this is the first in my firstframe visual poetry series. you’ll be able to tell by the incongruent naming convention that i’ll be establishing. in the future, this might become a subscriber-only kind of thing. thanks for reading! luca
This is an essay I wrote for volume 245 of “Down in The Dirt”, a monthly magazine from ScarsTV publications. A link to the online upload of the essay is here: https://w.scars.tv/cgi-bin/works_e.pl?/home/users/web/b929/us.scars/perl/text-writings/g14827.txt The magazine is available for purchase through amazon (a link to the current issue is here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GWRCZXW9), and volume…
This is an essay I wrote for volume 245 of “Down in The Dirt”, a monthly magazine from ScarsTV publications. A link to the online upload of the essay is here: https://w.scars.tv/cgi-bin/works_e.pl?/home/users/web/b929/us.scars/perl/text-writings/g14827.txt The magazine is available for purchase through amazon (a link to the current issue is here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GWRCZXW9), and volume…
When I was little, I bought lots of things – tat, as dad described it. Inexpensive, transient goods that I would beg for, play with for a few weeks, and invariably discard. I was addicted to buying things; plastic, hard things I could hold in my hand and take home with me. To my younger […]
When I was little, I bought lots of things – tat, as dad described it. Inexpensive, transient goods that I would beg for, play with for a few weeks, and invariably discard. I was addicted to buying things; plastic, hard things I could hold in my hand and take home with me. To my younger […]
i am the consummate traveller. i go to dark places, seedy undergrounds, the ends of the earth that mothers warn their timid children about. without a shiver or a bucked knee, i march forth, confidently, through shadows. i have looked the devil in the eye and found him unable to hold my gaze. willingly and […]
i am the consummate traveller. i go to dark places, seedy undergrounds, the ends of the earth that mothers warn their timid children about. without a shiver or a bucked knee, i march forth, confidently, through shadows. i have looked the devil in the eye and found him unable to hold my gaze. willingly and […]
The Return of Artaud Le Mômo The anchored spirit, screwed into me by the psycho- lubricious thrust of the sky is the one who thinks every temptation, every desire, every inhibition. o dedi o dada orzoura o dou zoura a dada skizi o kaya o kaya pontoura o ponoura a pena poni It’s the penetral […]
The Return of Artaud Le Mômo The anchored spirit, screwed into me by the psycho- lubricious thrust of the sky is the one who thinks every temptation, every desire, every inhibition. o dedi o dada orzoura o dou zoura a dada skizi o kaya o kaya pontoura o ponoura a pena poni It’s the penetral […]
It gets bad when you stop using the thing solely for its intended purpose and start using the thing as a default, a way to pass the time when nothing else is happening. That’s how addiction works. I think it’s most noticeable with the social internet, nowadays anyway. There’s nothing to do and everything’s boring […]
It gets bad when you stop using the thing solely for its intended purpose and start using the thing as a default, a way to pass the time when nothing else is happening. That’s how addiction works. I think it’s most noticeable with the social internet, nowadays anyway. There’s nothing to do and everything’s boring […]
In recent years, the boom of audiobooks, podcasts, Kindles, and other paperless reading practices has reached new heights. Given their rapid increase in popularity, I wanted to look at how these new modes of reading might be changing – and perhaps quietly eroding – our literary habits. We might begin by asking the question: what […]
In recent years, the boom of audiobooks, podcasts, Kindles, and other paperless reading practices has reached new heights. Given their rapid increase in popularity, I wanted to look at how these new modes of reading might be changing – and perhaps quietly eroding – our literary habits. We might begin by asking the question: what […]
Nelly can't stop thinking of JJ, 10 days after initial interaction