Street Writer
An anonymous novelist live-editing the psychological fiction The Still Point across a 33-country rail migration. Moving entirely off-camera with zero savings and no fixed address, I trade the illusion of security for a MacBook, a camera & a portable mic.
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The Anatomy of a Break Point (opens the original)
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It was Sunday, July 26. To anyone else, it was the peak of the Mediterranean summer, a sun-bleached paradise where the Adriatic lapped gently against the Riva promenade. But to me, the encroaching dusk brought a familiar, cold dread. I was already fearing a night on the streets. This wasn’t uncharted territory for me. I had already spent nights under the open sky in Brussels, shivering against the damp northern air, and in Vienna, watching the grand imperial facades turn indifferent in the dead
Writing from the Teeth of it... (opens the original)
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The departure board at Bruxelles-Midi does not care about the trajectory of a psychological novel, nor does it pause for the writer whose bank balance has flattened into a straight line. It flickers with immediate destinations that push far past the predictable tourist loops—the jagged mountain passes leading to Mostar, where the train tracks trace the emerald path of the Neretva River through bullet-scarred Balkan stone; the remote, mist-shrouded platforms of Dombås cut deep into the harsh inte
Welcome to the official home of Cedent-Power (opens the original)
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The Unmapped Border (opens the original)
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The Four Tools (opens the original)
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