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Tales From The Valley: Where Did The Bus Go?

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Sci-Fi Dreams to Reality: Designing our Destiny with AI

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A W.I.P. Around the Workshop: Character voice, style, and points of view

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Murder on the Dancefloor: Tales from Late-Stage Hospitality—The Dying Venue

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Hocus-Pocus Recipes and Rituals: The Future Is Yours, the Future Is Cheese

Time for cheese to truly do its thing! I am now going to show y’all how to do the impossible: stop time.Read Article

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Ordinary Phenomena: Mosquito Bites

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Don’t Go Down to the Basement: Why We Shouldn’t Enjoy Horror… and Why We Do Anyway

Writing horror represents a mastery of controlling and releasing tension.Read Article

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Murder on the Dancefloor: Tales from Late-Stage Hospitality—The Bathroom Stickers

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Robots and Lawyers: What Being ‘On the Spectrum’ Really Means

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Ordinary Phenomena: Birdmen in Flight

The crowd trickles in and out of lines, lips dulcet and candied, breaths loud and permeating.Read Article

Fri 11 Nov 2022
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Hocus-Pocus Recipes and Rituals: Clearing the Brain Fog

I’m running on empty, and my noggin’s got nothing. It’s a condition you are likely all too aware of: brain fog.Read Article

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Ordinary Phenomena: Snakeskin

You feel her trace the moles carved into the shallow of your skin like they’re constellations.Read Article

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Murder on the Dancefloor: Tales From Late-Stage Hospitality—The Staff Drinks

Echoes of the universe outside passed, barely perceptible, into the world of their intimacy.Read Article

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Filling Up the Static: Rocket, magic and Big Thief’s Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You

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Dear Diary: The PM's Retrospective Journal

Dear diary, I’m tired of the city life, summers on the run, people tell me I should stay, but I’ve got to get my fun.Read Article

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Column: Futility and the beauty of devastation in Hollow Knight

Hollow Knight is a behemoth in the indie games’ scene, lauded worldwide as “the Metroidvania to end Metroidvanias”. CreaRead Article

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A WIP Around the Workshop: Modern Mythology—Creating Our Own Lore

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