Society
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Choices Below the Waterline
Photo by Francis Odeyemi on Unsplash I hear the neighbors screaming over the sound of the rain on asphalt shingles above me, not quite enough to drown out the volume… Read more.
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Clair Obscur: On Choice and Creation
Photo by Steve Johnson on Unsplash I stand where the light is strongest because this is where I was taught to stand. Someone placed it here long before I arrived,… Read more.
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In the Absence of Certainty
Photo by Roméo A. on Unsplash It always begins with something that seems simple. A book, or a story. A puzzle you think you can solve. I read Vellum the… Read more.
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Who We Became to Survive Here
Photo by Vince Fleming on Unsplash It always starts the same way. A small room. A flickering desk lamp. A webcam just out of focus, softening everything it touches. You… Read more.
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The Price of A Choice
Photo by Ivan Aleksic on Unsplash It starts with a sound you’ve heard a thousand times: they’re arguing in the next room again, voices sharp enough to make the air… Read more.
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To Belong, Not Last
Photo by VENUS MAJOR on Unsplash He had stopped fighting months ago. Not because he had given up, but because he had made peace with the horizon. The cancer had… Read more.
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Forged in Witness
Photo by Zuzana Kacerová on Unsplash He’d been asked the question a thousand times in a thousand years, but it still caught him off guard when the barista said it… Read more.
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The God We Hate: On Money, Desire, and the Illusion of Freedom
Photo by Robert Thiemann on Unsplash They said the well had no bottom. That it swallowed prayers and promises alike, and that the only sound one ever heard after casting… Read more.
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The Sanity of Stars: On Madness, Creation, and the Price of Seeing
Photo by Alex on Unsplash Author’s Note The following introduction is a work of historical fiction, drawn from Van Gogh’s letters, medical records, and the recollections of those who knew… Read more.
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Ends and Means and the Soul Between
Photo by Ricardo Rocha on Unsplash My wife has a gift for focus that I’ve always admired. She decides what she wants, defines the steps, and then methodically walks through… Read more.
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To Feed the Fire
Photo by Perry Merrity II on Unsplash Dawn crept over the temple in a slow, deliberate unveiling. The air was thick with the scent of copal and iron. Smoke curled… Read more.
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The Moral Horizon
Photo by George Pagan III on Unsplash They do not feel the walls closing in. That is the trick of this new architecture. The trap isn’t built of stone or… Read more.
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The Corporate Hallucination: Why We Fear the Mirror, Not the Machine
Photo by Daniel Lincoln on Unsplash The week I taught my AI to admit when it doesn’t know something rather than responding with a well-crafted lie, my manager called to… Read more.
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Escapism: Portals, Prisons, and the Places Between
Photo by Tj Holowaychuk on Unsplash Author’s Note For the past few months, my life has followed a tight, looping rhythm: wake, work, eat with my wife, work again, escape… Read more.
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The Quiet Weight: On Warriors and Pretenders
Photo by Koshu Kunii on Unsplash They marched as if the streets belonged to them. Boots in rhythm, black armor gleaming beneath the brittle light of a city that had… Read more.
