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December 21, 2023

Arianna: You think Achilles was a real person? Jasmine: Achilles? Arianna: You know… pouty, moody, bad ass, Hector-killing Achilles. Jasmine: That’s just a myth. You know that’s not real. Arianna: I like to think all myths come from something real, even if those things aren’t, well, real.

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December 07, 2023

What makes a Leviathan scary is not simply its size. Many things can be large without eliciting fear. And it’s not simply that one could gobble you up in one bite, oh no. Being eaten is terrifying in its own way (digested, doubly so), but no, that alone is

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November 22, 2022

Conductor! A conductor of automobiles. A bus flies through the misty air with no one around to care No one except the conductor, of course! Can you imagine what else he might conduct, in flux, with baton twirling thus? I would go ask him, but I just got hit by

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November 16, 2022

There is a place, fellow traveler, that is so thin it appears as nothing but a ghost. In this place, everything is fleeting: time, consciousness, the taste of pumpkin pie. It’s easy to overlook the worth of a place like this, but when you make the time to appreciate

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October 18, 2022

I came upon a rising sea, and watched as it swallowed everything around me. I: Sea, you are deep and sublime and strange, and I love you for that. The sea said something in response… but all I could hear were the hissing waves.

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June 16, 2022

It wasn't a lie, but neither was it the truth.

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June 09, 2022

I came upon an endless forest and marveled at what I had never yet seen. I: Who would not leave their kingdom for a forest if given the chance? The Well spoke to me and said: None would. I: I do not understand. The Well responded thus: None come here

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June 02, 2022

In my travels through the Void I came across four humans on an interstellar craft. They spoke thus: 1: How smart we are to be able to move through the void. 2: We do not move through the void. The void passes by us. 3: Nay, motion is relative. Our

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February 22, 2022

In the witching hour, reality changes. Possibilities fan out like a beautiful flower. See, the mistake people make is assuming that hour is special, that things are solid in the else-time. Reality is — everything is a Rorschach.

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February 08, 2022

Where I’m from we got a saying. We like to imagine we’re helpful folk with good hearts and givin’ souls. We do our best to light the way for those gone astray, but we got a saying, a [ONTOLOGY] we take seriously: We always lie to strangers.

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