"Her pink jewelry box sits open between us like a small and very serious government." A daughter, a mother, and the unspoken rules of who gets to shine.

"Watching the neighbourhood empty itself in real time, dripping in a blazer she'd sweated through twice already, it was, Linda thought, a very good evacuation to shoot..."

Meet the man who broadcasts his location every morning: not out of fear, but "professionalism." A darkly funny descent into a future where privacy isn't a right, it's an inconvenience to your executioner. A satire.

"Tiredness in a Tuesday, worn since the last time it was tired. Tired of the next thing, the next thing, the next thing, the...."

"To Whom It May Concern, I write to issue a formal retraction of my life's central thesis..."

Abstract: The punishment of Sisyphus, son of Aeolus, King of Ephyra, has long been regarded as the paradigmatic example of eternal, futile labor. This paper challenges that assumption. Through application of standard tribological models, erosion rate equations, and basic thermodynamic principles, we demonstrate that...