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    Rest In Peace, And Other Lies They Tell

    July 17, 2026 /No Comments

    A woman dies in the Colonia, and the neighborhood suddenly remembers her fondly. I don't. Some truths don't get nicer just because someone stopped breathing.

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    Tales From Patient Zero

    July 13, 2026 /No Comments

    The demands of working through illness and being the source of spreading sickness.

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    Dear Stupid Ass Neighbors,

    July 10, 2026 /No Comments

    A letter my neighbors will never read. About gossip, corruption, and the survival logic that outlives the war that made it. Turns out it sounds familiar.

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    Not the Captain

    July 9, 2026 /No Comments

    I took the council seat. I'm not taking the presidency too. On refusing to captain a ship full of people who'd rather go down with it.

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    You Are The Walrus

    July 6, 2026 /No Comments

    A lech at the neighborhood gate, an unwanted embrace, and the exact moment two versions of myself, one starving for validation and one that knows better, went to war.

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