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, 2025 • A. A. Kostas

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Small Orbs in Soft Gray Canals

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

Oct 25, 2025 • Josiah Doon and Kevin LaTorre

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Catching The Phantomic Rabbit

Let the absence howl

Oct 11, 2025 • vanechka

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September 2025

After a Drowning, a Poet

Here, they don’t keep graveyards fenced in.

Sep 9, 2025 • Kevin LaTorre

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August 2025

ISLE OF THE DEAD

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

Aug 18, 2025 • M. E. Rothwell

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The Isle of Cryptoslavery

and the origins of Satoshi Nakamato

Aug 13, 2025 • A. A. Kostas

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THE INFINITE BOOKSHOP

One bookshop is all bookshops

Aug 6, 2025 • M. E. Rothwell

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Sibyl Lane

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

Aug 4, 2025 • Kevin LaTorre

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July 2025

Thomas Pynchon speaks darker truths than you could ever know

Lucian of Samosata, AT&T, and AI

Jul 30, 2025 • A. A. Kostas

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THE GREAT OUTSOURCING

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

Jul 7, 2025 • M. E. Rothwell

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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, 2025 • M. E. Rothwell

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March 2025

Out there in the deep

Through the black and seamless sea

Mar 6, 2025 • M. E. Rothwell

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