Fiction & Poetry
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Two Dead Men Dream of Death
“I keep having this damned dream,” I tell Merlin over breakfast.
Dirty White Van / Circa
I’m walking to work, earbuds in, scrolling through a playlist on my phone, when a dirty white van slams to a stop beside me.
«Being Outside»
«This is a story of a scientist who did population genetics on some rabbits, mice or flies or whatever.
Ryan’s Old Senses Fail CD
Cleaning out his old bedroom to make room for the new baby Ryan loads up a cardboard box with the last of his old CDs still surviving from high school
a message i received about a story about chess
Dude, I used that new GPT-4 language model, trained it w/ some plaintext annotations of chess games (think just a few mil), and it spawned this output last night while I was asleep?
Change Blindness
I am the vendor of dizzyingly vertical heels.
Cathedrals of Sewage
of course / the cesspools weren’t ideal but
After Auschwitz
I asked a former prisoner, “Where is everybody?” She said, “You’ll find out, child.”
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
The neighbors were going to toast the bomb.
George Washington / Daniel Boone / Thomas Jefferson
He was twelve when the cherry sapling still had not bloomed, and his father ordered him to chop it down the next morning, growling about the wasted orchard space.