I Have Not Spoken to My Brother in Five Years, and We Never Even Had a Fight

The quiet epidemic of micro-estrangement, where families disappear from each other through friction-free exhaustion

Martial Art

Why rigid forms and storyboards kill the magic, and how true mastery relies on trained creative reflexes.

The Hot Sheet Motel

Escaping what sort of hell?

Tales & Tidbits #29: November 2026

“There is always a November space after the leaves have fallen when she felt it was almost indecent to intrude on the woods.” — L.M…

Are We Still Doing This?

Third Annual Short & Weird Fiction Contest WINNER, November 2026 Newsletter

The Strange and Beautiful Things That Happened When I Fell in Love

Some people enter your life so quietly that you don’t realize how much space they’ve taken up until everything starts reminding you of…

Freeing Her Demon

Imprisoned for a century only she can set him free

The Body I Never Got To Know

On finally arriving, only to find you’re already leaving

The Things We Left #1 — Promises Made

We were once each other’s every day

The Furthest Point

On male friendship, loneliness, and the distance I kept between us.

Savoring Life

A delicious daily practice of positivity

Unknown, Even in Passing

What we notice says who we are, or so says the famous maxim. I think what we studiously avoid noticing says just as much.

Ralphy and June Send a Message from the Future

Reporting from Holodek 5 aboard the V-RIC (virtual reality interactive cinema) in Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico, Norte America, Earth.

Call Him Carl

Just when you think you’re getting to know your neighbours…

The Floor Remembers Your Weight

A story about how heavy our feet become when it’s time to leave.

The Me I’m Trying to Find

Losing myself to chronic illness

The Hill — Part One

Where the killer plots, the victim suspects nothing, and the rescuer goes for a walk