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Fraught Connections: A Review of Mike Powell’s “New Paltz, New Paltz” Early in Mike Powell’s slender debut novel, New Paltz, New Paltz, the protagonist establishes his affinity for escalators. “That feeling of moving without moving,” he remarks, “Like how an angel migh…

"Powell presents us with a character who is genuinely trying (in his hyper-fixated mode) to figure it out..."
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do cops live outside the city more for cultural reasons or financial or what?

the lion does not concern himself with citation formats

one must imagine sisyphus enjoying food court wings

A SPECIAL PRESENTATION: CLOAK & DAGGER There is a locked room. You have the key, if only your mind could recall where you hid it. Your mind is a locked room as well, and the possessor of its key lurks behind you. The key is a knife. Thi…

Cloak and Dagger A Special Presentation
on Apocalypse Confidential

Guest edited by Nick Greer @nickgreergkcin.bsky.social

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co-edited the new special presentation for apocalypse confidential

CLOAK & DAGGER

with work by @spookymeatball.bsky.social @corinnehalbert.bsky.social @matthewkinlin.bsky.social and many more

THE KEY IS A KNIFE ~ apocalypse-confidential.com/2025/12/21/a...

"I vacated the Forest Club for chummy cafes where I was sure to come up against members of my own subspecies, beings in flight from manifest destiny and Danish flatware." --Hob Broun, INNER TUBE

oh hes an axe throwing bro too. hes the six figure tech guy who thinks hes keeping austin weird by eating brisket tacos

most disturbing part of this is the nosql endorsement

same with attell's barfly archetype. people dont grant this character the same degenerate wisdom, just the degeneracy.

last night we let the alamos talk

i cant listen to her because then i just wanna listen to frou frou / imogen and then i just wanna listen to clams casino and then im god by lil b

YouTube video by Channel 4 Comedy Young Benedict Cumberbatch as a STRESSED OUT Assistant?! | Nathan Barley

couldnt stop thinking about this www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7Ju...

you should definitely take your teens to it. that's the entire spirit of the movie, the older generation trusting the younger to inherit the good fight.

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"At the Veldt Institute everyone is sick, so no one is sick." — The Veldt Institute, Samuel M. Moss

Officially out as of yesterday. See link below.

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portland

ANNOUNCING: CLOAK & DAGGER There is a locked room. You have the key, if only your mind could recall where you hid it. Your mind is a locked room as well, and the possessor of its key lurks behind you. The key is a knife. Thi…

i am editing this. you should submit your work. apocalypse-confidential.com/2025/09/09/a...

@milesklee.bsky.social what's the prize for the first person who posts hog or hole with the book?

Very excited to share the official announcement of my first book 'The Veldt Institute'!

Official Double--Negative announcement here: www.instagram.com/p/DOIx9MGkWxg

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this behavior isn't just encouraged but compulsory

i miss old wheatley

and kind of forgotten as wells + that creative tradition have gone onto their various trajectories away

"I used to teach the short story to college students, and they all seemed to think the last line should tie up everything in a big satin bow with the moral attached like a gift tag...But for me, the best short fiction works through discomfort. A reader shouldn’t know what it all means at the end."

dont worry found it

whats your address?

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we don't have plans for audiobook at this time but if anybody wants i will whisper the stories into an experimental sonic weapon pointed directly at your bedroom

pockit ases

one more spread w/ mads illustration