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Fiction, book updates, and philosophical takes on creation, slow media, and what the world leaves behind.
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Resistant | Chapter 5 - An Adult Should Know (opens the original)
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This is Chapter 5 of Resistant (Book 2 of the Intrinsic Trilogy)—the final chapter on Substack, and then the rest of the story will be revealed in the book version, to be released later this year!In case you missed it, I decided to release the opening raw chapters of the second installment. If you’ve already read Book 1, thanks for returning to this space. I hope you’re eager to read more of Anne’s shenanigans. If you haven’t read Intrinsic yet, consider this your spoiler warning.Unlike Intrinsi
Woman of Substance (opens the original)
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This story is a guest post for ’s The Piano Man Chronicles, an anthology built on a wonderfully odd idea:A collection of stories connected only by a novel that doesn’t actually exist… well, except in the lives of the characters who encounter it.Read more about the project after the story.Woman of SubstanceAsk anyone inside,
Resistant | Chapter 4 - The Groves Caster (opens the original)
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This is Chapter 4 of Resistant (Book 2 of the Intrinsic Trilogy)—the penultimate chapter on Substack, and then the rest of the story will be revealed in the book version, to be released later this year. In case you missed it, I decided to release the opening raw chapters of the second installment. If you’ve already read Book 1, thanks for returning to this space. I hope you’re eager to read more of Anne’s shenanigans. If you haven’t read Intrinsic yet, consider this your spoiler warning.Unlike I
Resistant | Chapter 3 - A Letter (opens the original)
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In case you missed it, I decided to release the opening raw chapters of the second installment. This is Chapter 3 of Resistant (Book 2 of the Intrinsic Trilogy).If you’ve already read Book 1, welcome back. I hope you’re eager to read more of Anne’s shenanigans. If you haven’t read Intrinsic yet, consider this your spoiler warning.Unlike Intrinsic, which I somehow ended up serialising in full on Substack, I’m only planning to share the openi
Cross my heart (yet another face of Elias Thorne) (opens the original)
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Quick note: This flash fiction(?) is part of a community writing project: The Thousand Faces of Elias Thorne.Honestly, I’d never even heard of the A.I. hallucinated character “Elias Thorne” until today. But after spending the past hour going down the rabbit hole—I mean, you can’t not acknowledge the sheer hilarity of it all. And the fact that it has sparked this kind of wave across online groups and subgroups has been nothing short of remarkable.So when I stumbled upon this project initiated by
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