DIY Audiobooks with make-audiobook
For six months in 2022, I stared at a hospital ceiling. Paralysed from the neck down, audiobooks weren't a luxury—they were my lifeline to the …
The Golden Age Eating Itself
AI Hype, Model Collapse, and the Dead Internet I've been watching AI models dream about my French Bulldog lately. The images are charming at …
We Broke Irish
It's hard to read. It's even harder to learn. We bastardized the language to save money.
Found Families and Secret Sounds
A young guitarist in São Paulo draws strangers into his orbit—some to protect him, some to take what he has. Heloisa Prieto's novel is a fable about …
This Way Out
'We didn't grow up in the world. The world grew around us.' Ron DeChristoforo's This Way Out follows three boys through institutional childhood in …
Open Your Heart
Step 1: Do not read the instructions.
Someone will have read them for you—
a do-gooder who Googled it at 2am
and carries the diagrams now
behind their …
Enigma
For me the sovereign bends the knee.
But honour me, and you I’ll serve.
In ways in which you cannot see,
In ways I deem you to deserve.
I am the …
What the Tide Brought In
It wasn’t driftwood or jellyfish,
not rope or cracked plastic,
not the usual ghosts of summer—
but a door.
Painted green once,
now …
Quadriplegia
A quadriplegic patient wages a quiet war for dignity and autonomy against medical authority and visitors alike. Told through darkly comic encounters …
Because I Would Not Stop for Death
Because I would not stop for Death
He made a bed for me,
Inside my cell there was a bell
If nurses were of need.
We held a wake my friends brought …
Tumble
Rumble rumble round we go:
To ride the highs, negate the lows.
Mundane inane, intrigue, awe ⸺
Routine’s comfort, glossed or raw.
Tumble tumble …