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Nobody sent the memo. You woke up in the revision already implemented, catching up to a body that changed without asking. The grief isn't the body. It's the not-knowing.

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healingmusic

What You Don't Know You're Doing

He sends a song and means it. I'm recalibrating everything. He's healing me without knowing. Without trying. Just being.

languagegrief

AUG 2025

The Grammar of the Unfinished

A catalog of sentences that stopped before the period.

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Two Boys From New Orleans Taught Me Something About Darkness

musiccreative nonfiction

Two Boys From New Orleans Taught Me Something About Darkness

serialized fictionpsychological horror

What horrorcore has in common with literary horror, and why neither of them is asking your permission.

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April 03, 2026

The Cartwright Hours

A Serialized Novella Cartwright Memorial Hospital, Traverse City, Michigan One night. Twelve hours. One surgical coordinator. What she observes. What she reports. The space between.

medicinebody

Instruments

A verse companion to SLIT LAMP. Five tools. Five small negotiations between the body and the word care.

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elegycatalog

Taxonomy of Apologies Never Given

The apology you drafted and deleted. The one that came as behavior instead of words. The one still happening. A catalog of debts the mouth declined to pay.

intimacymedicine

OCT 2025

On Being Looked At, and Looked Through

The clinical gaze examines you. The surveillance gaze files you. The intimate gaze actually finds you. Most of us are still looking for the third.

medicinespace

The Vocabulary of Waiting Rooms

A room designed to make you believe everything is fine while confirming nothing. The lighthouse print is lying. So is the plant.

medicinetrauma

What the Body Keeps

The chart knows your diagnosis. The body keeps the original file. It has never once agreed to reclassify anything as resolved.

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languagegrief

Taxonomy of Silences

Silence isn't the absence of language. It's language that decided you weren't worth the words. Or that you were worth more than words could hold.

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psychologytime

On Dread (as Distinct from Fear)

Fear has the courtesy to arrive with a reason. Dread moves in before the threat does, redecorates, and charges rent on a future that hasn't happened yet.

bodyautonomy

The Language of Consent Forms

The form arrives before the procedure does. It has already decided what you understand.

anxietybreakup

The Tuesday I Chose Myself

The quietest revolution I ever started, and the morning I finally showed up for it.

psychologicalbody

SLIT LAMP

To be examined is not the same as being known. But it's close enough to feel like a violation.

dreamsanxiety

The Dream Where My Teeth Are Correct

For once nothing falls out. For once I keep everything.

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horroruncanny

The Visitor

She looked exactly like my mother. She even knew the things my mother knew. That was the problem.

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bodyanxiety

Cartography of a Nervous System

Here is where the fear lives. Here is where it branched.

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dark fictionbody

OCT 2025

Soft Tissue

After the accident, she couldn't stop touching her own face.

Everything That Breathes Eventually Doesn't

short fictionfamily

Everything That Breathes Eventually Doesn't

Three sisters. One summer. Something moving in the lake.

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What Horror Knows That Literary Fiction Pretends Not To

horrorliterary theory

OCT 2025

What Horror Knows That Literary Fiction Pretends Not To

The body is always political. The monster is always a mirror.

Portrait of the Mother as a Weather System

familyportrait

Portrait of the Mother as a Weather System

Low pressure. Probability of thunder. Pack an umbrella.

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dark humorreflection

Autopsy of a Good Year

The organs were unremarkable. The cause of death: expectation.

booksreading

SEP 2025

The Year I Read Nothing But Horror

There is comfort in the monster. You know exactly what it wants.

horrorbody horror

The Hollow Women

She had been wearing her own face wrong for years. Nobody noticed until the mirror did. That was the beginning of the unraveling.

griefpersonal

Grief Is Not a Metaphor

I know. I used it like one for years. Then I had something real to compare it to.

craftcreative process

On the Permission to Be Disturbed

A case for art that makes you uncomfortable. Including your own.

bodydissociation

DEC 2025

Instructions for the Uninhabited Body

Step one: remember you are wearing it.

elegycatalog

Taxonomy of Small Griefs

A catalog of losses no one eulogizes. The sock without a match. The word you almost said.

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personal essayidentity

Dispatch from the Underside

What it feels like to live slightly to the left of your own life.

mysteryshort fiction

Threshold

The door had been locked from the inside. No one had a key.

mysterywater

Night Swimming

She went in at midnight. At dawn her clothes were still on the dock.

horroratmosphere

SEP 2025

In the Before-Dark

They all agreed: the light at dusk was wrong that summer. It had a weight to it.

identitybody

Notes on Becoming Something Else

What the body knows that the mind refuses to acknowledge.

horroraesthetics

On the Pleasure of Feeling Haunted

A meditation on why certain stories cling, and what they might want.

griefstrange

DEC 2025

The Weight of a Small Dog

He carried it everywhere for three weeks after. People assumed he was sad.

craftstyle

AUG 2025

The Sentence as a Site of Violence

Prose style is not neutral. Every choice is an argument.

horrorhaunting

What Comes After the Teeth

Something was living in the house before we were. Something was patient.

surrealpsychological

The Man Who Couldn't Dream

He'd been awake for eleven days. Not by choice, he said.

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horrorrural gothic

The Language of Rot

The town had a word for the smell. They didn't teach it to children.

craftcharacter

Against Likeable Protagonists

The demand that characters be palatable is a demand that writers be cowards.