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Essays

November 10, 2025

Dr. Cassandra, or: How We Learned to Worry Nonstop and Call…

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Looking back through history, one can find something almost touching in the way each historical era selects its preferred image of catastrophe. Medieval Europe feared God’s wrath; the 19th century imagined civilization collapsing under the weight of its own decadence. The late…

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Confessions

June 15, 2025

On the Dry, the Green, and the Flame That Makes No…

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Milan Kundera, student, born 1 April 1929 in Brno, resident of Prague VII, student housing, King Jiří VI Street, appeared today at the local police precinct and made a statement concerning Iva Militka, a student living in the same building... With these dry and faceless lines –…

Short Stories

June 16, 2025

A Little Nighttime Tale

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Good evening, dear sir – would you permit me the modest pleasure of your company on this grey and rather unpleasant Berlin night? One rarely encounters countrymen here, and if one does, they usually hurry to turn into the nearest side street – most often out of embarrassment…

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Books

June 01, 2025

Firecurl in the Ghost Park

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After surviving the Ghost Forest, Anne — still Firecurl, still fierce — awakens to find her journey far from over.