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the chevalier

Once he heard that the chevalier was closing, he had to call her. It was only fitting and fair that they meet there one last time, to say goodbye to it, and to their young selves, and to whatever it was they had together, and which he knew he would never have again with anyone else. It was a summer fling, that was one way to put it, and though it was very intense, they were much too young to be so tied to another person, they still had their whole lives ahead of them. This is what she’d said, an...

Wee Wisdom (41)

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedfor a while now, and when i remember, i put all my essays' titles in parenthesis, because i consider them to be only asides to my fiction. really every idea and every value is already in the stories, and better, deeper.by far the most common redundant expression i see is 'add additional something'. it's like people do not have eyes or ears. i wonder how they avoid dying in accidents every day.don't misunderstand ...

hypnagothic #two

hypnagothic is going darker for issue #two.

tales to terrify and petrify and mystify.

in this issue:

Appointment in Samarkand (Maolsheachlann Ó Ceallaigh)
The True Foundation (Sean Gois)
Out of Body (Laeth)
The Philosopher and the Imp (Tom Magee)
The dream about the house on top of the hill (Júlia)

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Wee Wisdom (40)

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedthe machine could write my love letters word for word but not in bloodtake hints, trust instincts

a tragic death
under brutal heat
the ants feast

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedmany centuries pastthe people did not think like usbut ten thousand years agoreally, who knowsmy hands placed the scissors there, and then over them the box so they wouldn't be found again until...

(inspiration, intuition, influence)

this was originally going to be a comment but it got too long, so here it goes.

Bruce wrote:

I've realized I don't have a clear understanding of intuition, inspiration, influence - that are neither individual nor abstract (because I haven't understood it, I can only express it negatively).

When a young child experiences his world, there is an animistic sense of the presence of other consciousnesses, but only a few are of known individuals. How can the unindividual but personal (...of beings) cons...

her name

You meet someone named Philip and you don’t think again about the name. It’s more like the sound of a pavlovian bell, or maybe like a calling card, with no meaning and no existence outside its connection to the person named. You may or may not know, but even if you do it wouldn’t cross your mind, that the name is composed of two parts, philo, meaning love, the same as in philosophy or philology, and hippo, meaning horse, which may sound strange to most ears now because hippopotamus, literally th...

in heat

As the dog days stretched to dog weeks and then to dog months, we forgot what it was like to have any other kind of weather, or any other kind of world. Outside the heat there is nothing except fantasies and illusions. The heat is eternal, it has existed since before the world was made and it will exist long after the world is gone. That’s what it feels like.

How long has it been. Three, four months, who can tell. It can’t last much longer, can it. Have the seasons been abolished, and from now on...

a short prehistory of the carrot

There was a time on this earth, as everyone knows, when men and women lived for hundreds of years. And in those times, processes that in our own age take many generations to unfold, father begetting son becoming father begetting son, and so on and so forth, could instead be accomplished by one man alone, regardless of how many sons he had, or even daughters, and sometimes because of them. This story is about one such man, the man who invented the carrot, and why he did it.

The invention happened ...

Wee Wisdom (39)

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedone thing that is important for me regarding what i do is that no one will be able to say it is traditionalist, conservative, restorationist. i want it to be for the future, a future more hallowed than the present, and more present than the past. barfieldian futurism. yet, conservative, traditionalist. i'm also these things. i have respect for the past. i believe in immutable moral and psychical and physical laws. but i al...

hypnagothic #one

here it is, the first of many issues of hypnagothic mag, with stories by Sean Gois, John Gois, Wawrzyniec and yours truly.

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