HeyJaredAlexander Orlov
I'm a writer, working on my first novel. Get in touch: alexanderorlovholmes@gmail.com
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Creating my own homunculus (opens the original)
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Duelling Scars (opens the original)
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As a boy, I dreamed of scars I hadn’t received yet. By day I imagined losing eyes, hands, and legs. I imagined their replacements.Wouldn’t it be so useful for a scar to bisect my brow? I had no plan of how to get a scar.As an adult by dream faded, but I still nurtured the ancient desire to be wounded.I met a man who was, to a small extent, a kindred spirit. He too wanted to be wounded. Even at the academy, I hadn’t met another such as he.He told me that in the old decadent days of Prussia, stude
Can you solve my riddles three? (opens the original)
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Here is little piece on riddle-making, with some riddles for the reader enclosed at the end. I am currently working on some writing on recent films, especially Backrooms and Nolan’s Odyssey, and on similarities between modern and ancient folklore, comparing the figure of the Cyclops to modern cryptids. For that sort of thing in your inbox, along with my usual fiction & article writing, subscribe below.<input class="email-input
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