Category: General
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and they burn so bright, while you can only wonder why
Like the faerie folk, once you’ve learned to see them, you always will—and also like the faerie folk, they can see that you can see them, and that marks you out for whatever blessings or curses they may choose to bestow upon you.
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i’d buy that for a dollar
Few things hurt quite so much as a confrontation with one’s obsolete exceptionalisms.
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a configuration that can’t possibly be true, and yet here it is
The shock of the same old new.
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so immersive that they transcend words on a page or pixels on a screen
Lock up your libraries, the brand-marketing people have discovered worldbuilding.
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the months of rot
Reflections on the dog days of a) summer, b) that thing we still insist on thinking of as “civilisation”, and c) the human life-arc.