The Battle of Taipei, First Sino-American War, 2026

Author’s Note: I recently received a series of whatsapp messages from an unknown number (the person/s behind these messages claimed they got my contact…

Oct 28 • 

A. A. Kostas

13

5

4

Small Orbs in Soft Gray Canals

I received the following texts from my one-time university acquaintance Josiah Doon.

Oct 25 • 

Josiah Doon

 and 

Kevin LaTorre

12

4

3

Catching The Phantomic Rabbit

Let the absence howl

Oct 11 • 

vāneçka

38

5

11

September 2025

After a Drowning, a Poet

Here, they don’t keep graveyards fenced in.

Sep 9 • 

Kevin LaTorre

25

6

4

August 2025

ISLE OF THE DEAD

THERE IS an island out there beyond the last shimmering gasp of the foamed flecked sea.

Aug 18 • 

M. E. Rothwell

33

6

4

The Isle of Cryptoslavery

and the origins of Satoshi Nakamato

Aug 13 • 

A. A. Kostas

39

11

9

THE INFINITE BOOKSHOP

One bookshop is all bookshops

Aug 6 • 

M. E. Rothwell

58

13

8

Sibyl Lane

I received this story from a university acquaintance named Josiah Doon.

Aug 4 • 

Kevin LaTorre

21

4

3

July 2025

Thomas Pynchon speaks darker truths than you could ever know

Lucian of Samosata, AT&T, and AI

Jul 30 • 

A. A. Kostas

112

21

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THE GREAT OUTSOURCING

In the beginning, early Man, still living among the trees, ate only fruit and leaves.

Jul 7 • 

M. E. Rothwell

156

21

31

April 2025

Midnight on the Lagoon

There was barely a ripple upon the water, where the reflections of stars glinted like floating leaves.

Apr 19 • 

M. E. Rothwell

46

9

15

March 2025

Out there in the deep

Through the black and seamless sea

Mar 6 • 

M. E. Rothwell

77

14

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