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Memory Lane follows a petty criminal on the run after a robbery gone wrong who finds himself tormented by his past in a nightmarish hotel.
Title says it all! Pick up your audiobook copy over on Audible or you can support me directly by purchasing on Patreon! Thank you to Sylvia Langille of Timber Ghost Press for her support, Greg Chapman for adapting his cover design for the audiobook, and especially David Peoples for making…
Join Us follows an imprisoned space labor activist locked in a battle of wills with his fascist interrogator. Brand-spankin’ new sci-fi short story up on Patreon! Join Us opens with space labor unionist Dirk Larsen imprisoned on the planet T’Lairen and interrogated by a faceless crony of the fascist government.…
Hundreds of thousands of civilizations have existed. We know about maybe .01 percent. The most powerful at their peak all thought they were eternal empires without end.
Even if Harris/Walz wins, I have begun to reckon with the idea that my country as I’ve known her is dying, if not dead already. That America cannot overcome its original sin. That the center cannot hold.
With Trump/Vance now at the head of the venomous snake that is the white supremacist project, who is in opposition? I wish it could say it is the Democratic Party but to believe that the American system is founded on the basic inequalities outlined previously necessitates a different conversation than left vs. right.
Let’s unravel this racist/property bullshit, starting with the word “Aryan.” READ Part I and Part II. Now associated solely with the white supremacist project (i.e. the Aryan Brotherhood), the Proto-Indo-Iranian word was at its root an ethnic self-designation used by various peoples in Iran and India thousands of years ago, when…
“Property” is not a naturally-occurring phenomenon. Some human had to invent the notion. More importantly, others had to agree to it.
It’s racism and white supremacy. It’s misogyny and colonialism.
But really what it boils down to is property.