Monthly Archives: June 2025

Entropy Schmentropy (redux) She was crowned Queen of the Universe The Anti-Christ teetered at the edge of the balance beamon the cusp of space-time A crowd gathered on the accretion disk keenfor a victor The supergiant elliptical galaxy IC 1101 was unmoved—filled … Continue reading →

What I’m Reading: In the long hallway, everyone’s doors were closed. I touched every doorknob and saw myself magnified. — Callie Siskel / “Echo”

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week In the end, we are all existential pathfinders: We select among the paths life affords, and then, when those paths no longer work for us, we edit them and innovate as necessary. The tricky … Continue reading →

She Said (redux) She said to herself: Thanks for renting a space in this life. Despite the scrofulous and desiccate in life you stayed around to witness the swirling swallows above, and their reflected pantomime in the water below—a whirlwind … Continue reading →

cross-wired (redux) the morality of it doesn’t enter in to any of this we can hold two mutually contradictory ideasin mind at the same time fritillaryherbaceous& compromised as a corpus callosumthat no longer holdsa mind together cross-wired and twisted beyond … Continue reading →

Sense / Relatives (redux) Then there was my uncle Mao. His own generational AI—his Little Red Bookworm in the rainstorm and no one left wanting his worn pouffy sieges. But that’s exactly what my underage blackguard aunt wore on her spectacles so … Continue reading →

What I’m Reading: This is warso all the birds would flee — Irma Pineda / “This is war”

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week I gotta tellthe truth—sometimes,people are not born, some of us fall into this world — Hílda Davis / “Pilate ponders where she belongs” The thing that makes life interesting is that it ends. The … Continue reading →