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American Light - An Appreciation
A meticulously footnoted Beat poem by a fictional poet who Moore inserts into the movement’s history, along with a bit of a mystery/tragedy revealed in the footnotes. Something of a slog as it feels more like research than fiction or poetry.
— Nov 30, 2025 09:34AM
A meticulously footnoted Beat poem by a fictional poet who Moore inserts into the movement’s history, along with a bit of a mystery/tragedy revealed in the footnotes. Something of a slog as it feels more like research than fiction or poetry.
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Nicholas J
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And, At The Last, Just To Be Done With Silence -
A dialogue between two near-to-death medieval fellows as they are being punished for violating sanctuary and hauling the corpse of their victim to local churches, at each of which they are scourged. Quick and grim and creepy.
— Dec 01, 2025 08:12AM
A dialogue between two near-to-death medieval fellows as they are being punished for violating sanctuary and hauling the corpse of their victim to local churches, at each of which they are scourged. Quick and grim and creepy.
Nicholas J
is on page 415 of 456
What We Can Know About Thunderman -
A sprawling and scathing dissection of the comics industry, barely hidden with pseudonyms. Catharsis for Moore, and a great read.
— Nov 30, 2025 09:29AM
A sprawling and scathing dissection of the comics industry, barely hidden with pseudonyms. Catharsis for Moore, and a great read.
Nicholas J
is on page 173 of 456
Illuminations - a forlorn middle-aged man revisits the seaside holiday town where his parents took him each year growing up. A melancholy tale with a creepy ending twist!
— Nov 09, 2025 09:50AM
Nicholas J
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The Improbably Complex High-Energy State - a downright wacky imagining of the initial femtosecond of existence, as experienced by a theoretical Boltzmann brain
— Nov 08, 2025 08:32AM
Nicholas J
is on page 117 of 456
Cold Reading - A great little ghost story, told in real-time narration by a charlatan psychic who is contacted for a reading by a man who recently lost his skeptic twin brother.
— Nov 06, 2025 06:44AM
Nicholas J
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Location, Location, Location — a real estate agent shows Jesus into his new home as Judgement Day unfolds around them.
— Nov 05, 2025 11:10AM
Nicholas J
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Not Even Legend - a short, mind-bending story about a creature who experiences time backwards
— Nov 02, 2025 10:41AM
Nicholas J
is on page 46 of 456
Hypothetical Lizard - an eerie and beautiful story set in an exclusive brothel that caters to sorcerers, about a transgender courtesan who returns to visit her spurned lover, as witnessed by a half-masked whore with an induced brain impairment. Absolutely enchanting.
— Oct 29, 2025 07:13AM
