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The Things We Pretend to Be
Photo by freestocks on Unsplash The lantern is heavier than it looks. A candle burns inside a hollowed turnip, its flame dancing behind a crooked face carved into the stubborn… Read more.
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The Question Was Defective
Photo by Arthur Mazi on Unsplash Humanity has spent an extraordinary amount of time searching for the meaning of life. We have consulted prophets, philosophers, mystics, poets, and occasionally people… Read more.
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Disasters That Never Happened
Photo by Sergio García on Unsplash By the time the city began congratulating itself on another uneventful harvest, Cassandra had nearly forgotten about the fire. She had seen it weeks… Read more.
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Something Other than Grief
Photo by Jason Leung on Unsplash There is an argument in The Kite Runner that has stayed with me longer than most of the plot. Baba tells Amir that there… Read more.
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The Price on Your Soul
Photo by Md. Hasanuzzaman Himel on Unsplash Anubis waits beside the scales. At least, that’s how we remember him. The dead arrive having already surrendered everything that once allowed them… Read more.
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The Lineage of Atlas
Photo by Olga Iacovlenco on Unsplash The war was already over when they brought Atlas before Zeus. There was little ceremony left in it. Ceremony belongs to uncertainty: to trials… Read more.
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