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Machines Don’t Whimper
A poet’s funeral becomes a public reckoning with AI, art, pain, and the human need to create meaning before machines consume it.
Collected Works in Contemporary Art and Literature
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What lurks in the shadows of TBR Dark
Horror is a genre that still receives much undeserved negativity. It is, after all, a genre that displays the most variety: witches and vampires, ghouls and gremlins, killer forests and…
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Fancy Formatting in Poetry
Fancy formatting in poetry flatters mediocrity. Real verse lives in the voice, not on the page.
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The Deer Fence
A woman’s sleepless night spirals into horror and revelation when a deer impales itself on a backyard tree and her husband is nowhere to be found. “She screamed his name…
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Fujiyama, 1923
An opium-addicted professor ascends Mt. Fuji in 1923, chasing sunrise, haunted by illness, memory, and the blurred line between salvation and surrender. “Opium. It has the power to set you…
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Consecration
A lyrical journey through grief, memory, and mysticism, where loss seeks form, and fleeting beauty becomes a sacrament of the soul. “It was just a lamp, a tree in rainfall,…
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European vs American Writing: Proximity and Distance
European literature is born from enforced proximity. From the impossibility of sealing oneself off completely. From the daily friction of languages, classes, resentments, affections, histories, all occupying the same physical…
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Blue Durango
A retired DEA agent smuggles Chinese migrants across the Mexico–U.S. border, evading cartels and corruption in a perilous bid for freedom and asylum.
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What Old Medicine Can Teach Us About Love | Corey Mertes
A young couple’s love unfolds across time in seven lyrical vignettes exploring memory, healing, and the emotional logic of old-world medicine.
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Best Laid Plans
Dickran risks everything to build a secret memorial in the Syrian desert, honoring the Armenian genocide amid a nation torn by civil war. “If these sands could talk – of…