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This issue we’re ‘celebrating’ one year of this publication. Yay! And so we’re going back how it was in the beginning, before I’d splintered it into a…
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A grief document
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3102-11-04 The snake, in wisdom cultures, is a symbol of healing. Later, in the Western world, snakes became associated with evil. So we have within…
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3102-11-02 Without knowing or asking why, I’ve inched my way halfway to seventy. Further now, actually. I say without asking why, and that’s not at all…
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Hey y’all, Just want to send a quick thank you to the new subscribers and to those of you who’ve been with me from the beginning. Thank you, really…
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February 2023

Here is the original opening for the first draft of my first novel, Everything Fails, which is to say, the very literal beginning of all this mess…
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I pull out a worn paperback. It’s got a green cover. I show it to you. “So this is my third novel,” I say. “Well … fourth. The second one wasn’t related…
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You’re driving. You know, if you don’t mind. If you do, then the car is on autopilot. Vengeance is a bumpier driver than Clara, but he gets it done. Out…
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It’s been some years since I’ve seen Professor Thanerthope. So I didn’t recognize her at first. Maybe it was the new body, maybe it was the stylish…
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I’m sitting on a blue velvet chair, wearing a black silk kimono robe with gold leaf print on it. You’re sitting across from me wearing whatever you’d…
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Bishop Shelly led me deep into the primeval woods. These were not the bleeding barks of the Jungle, mind; rather, the bleached bone wood of the…
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The house layout is the same, but the overlay is different. You might ask what I mean by that, and I can explain that it’s a metaphor. People now—your…
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