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The Antidote: Karen Russell

Feb 1, 2026

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5 min read

The Antidote: Karen Russell

Bits that I loved, some small scattered thoughts about the novel as a whole.

Thoughts on a failed short story: part two

Dec 30, 2025

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11 min read

Thoughts on a failed short story: part two

[GUEST POST] Saturday Sketchbook: Repeating Patterns & Perfection

Dec 20, 2025

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6 min read

[GUEST POST] Saturday Sketchbook: Repeating Patterns & Perfection

Sometimes when I have completely run out of ideas, or interesting places, or thoughts, or anger, I instead draw the same couple of patterns and lines over and over again. Layering them on top of each other in familiar and unfamiliar ways, deciding which color looks best combined with the other, drawing the same Olive cartoon shape.

Tops from a top

Dec 14, 2025

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6 min read

Tops from a top

The top things I've consumed this year, since that's what this newsletter was originally about.

on writing a short story again and again and again and again

Dec 7, 2025

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7 min read

on writing a short story again and again and again and again

For a latest story (that I started with the title Drought) I worked on this board, so what follows is some rambles about the different parts of the board and what my thinking was attaching/creating them.

An assortment of thoughts on recent consumptions

Oct 7, 2025

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6 min read

An assortment of thoughts on recent consumptions

Nothing substantial, carry on

A random assortment of things consumed & consuming me

Feb 22, 2025

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9 min read

A random assortment of things consumed & consuming me

I told Zach, “Hey this is just like Persona but without all the extra stuff” and by extra stuff I meant battles.

Bits from Small Rain & Why I Liked them

Feb 10, 2025

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10 min read

Bits from Small Rain & Why I Liked them

Last week I wrote some rambling thoughts about Small Rain and so this week I thought I’d just pull apart a lot of the bits I underlined and starred as I read through the novel.

Rambling thoughts on Small Rain

Feb 3, 2025

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8 min read

Rambling thoughts on Small Rain

When I read a book I have an almost pathological urge to assign it relevancy to my life. I look for the ways its structure or meaning folds into my own: its metaphors overlapping the facade of my own self discovery.

Here's what I've been consuming so far in January (and maybe a little before that too)

Jan 16, 2025

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4 min read

Here's what I've been consuming so far in January (and maybe a little before that too)

some brief bits on what i've consumed in January, and maybe a little before that too.

quick consumptions for Wednesday

Oct 9, 2024

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2 min read

quick consumptions for Wednesday

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Overly personal ramblings and short stories on things consuming me.

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