Category: Absurdism
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Shadows of the Householder
A single moment—a slap at a dinner table—fractures a family and echoes across years of love, addiction, exile, and unexpected redemption. Shadows of the Householder explores how ordinary lives unravel and reassemble, where desire, discipline, and memory collide in ways no one fully understands.
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Bopa’s Martian Delirium:
ICU Delirium Excerpt: Pulsing Bay & Escape ICU Bay 7, Mars Orbital Clinic The eight corners of the bay pulse—expanding, shrinking with Bopa’s heartbeat. Red dust in his veins, red dust in the lights. Med-foam amplifies every thump. The room breathes as one organism, Bopa its failing heart. Fear flickers. Panic threatens—low-gravity ICU cascade, suffocation…
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Crossing the Rubicon
A playful, philosophical retelling of Caesar’s crossing of the Rubicon as a shared dream that becomes empire. Myth, history, and morphogenetic fields meet in a thought‑experiment.
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The Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh Fool
We had gone to meet a recruit, a young boy who worked in his father’s small grocery store, and though we had not announced ourselves as doctors we were treated as guest doctors anyway, because we were guests of the father and that was enough. Tea was brought, chairs were arranged, and the room filled…
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The Lake That Returned the Bullet
The lake was flat that evening, so still it looked unreal. No boats. No ripples. Just a sheet of dark water stretching into haze. Bopa Rai would later tell the inspector that water is not soft — it only pretends to be. The man in the car had a single wound, just below the left…
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The Twilight of Ymir
Ymir looked at the gods and smiled. “You did a crooked thing,” he said, “but a thing that I myself could not have done. I bless you for doing it, but I also curse you to walk the twilight for the crime.” And the twilight thickened around the gods, not darkness, not light, but a…
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TACO
The content discusses U.S. presidential approaches to acquiring Greenland for its strategic military significance, focusing on Trump’s bold yet often retreating tactics, contrasting with Obama’s measured diplomacy and Bush’s aggressive rhetoric. The situation illustrates ongoing tensions between national interests, allied cooperation, and colonial echoes, reflecting complex geopolitical dynamics.