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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Irish is ugly.
It's hard to read. It's even harder to learn. We bastardized the language to save money.
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 …
Brother
We entered the world with a bang—
a hot knot of plasma and awe,
siblings packed tighter than quarks
in the nursery of our mother’s arms. …
