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Winters Tales

Winters TalesNov 1, 2026

Oathsworn: The Nameless | Chapter 28: Breather

“Well, that was exciting,” Rowan remarked as she held the door open for Ainsel. “Although if I’d known we’d be back so soon, I’d have gotten the good coffee in for you.” Ainsel didn’t respond, drifting over to the sofa and flopping down in one blank, glassy-eyed motion. Rowan winced as she connected with the cushion; there wasn’t much in the way of meat on her, so she must have felt the dodgy springs in that thing, surely? But she just fell over onto her side and curled up into a ball, carefully...

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Winters Tales

Winters TalesOct 27, 2026

Dúleigheasóra

I told him, I told him to leave it and wait for our boy to come back from market! Ailill Dearbháil fussed at her husband, at that moment stretched out on my kitchen table and looking decidedly unwell. She'd been right to tell him to wait to finish reaping the barley; the gash in his shin where the scythe blade had sunk was deep, and were it not for the moss she'd jammed in there in a fit of quick-thinking, he'd have bled out before they would have made it to me. As soon as they'd arrived, I'd sw...

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Winters Tales

Winters TalesOct 25, 2026

Nationwide Cancer Decline Sparks Hope

For the first time since the war ended eighty years ago, the rate of diagnosed cancer has had its first statistically significant reduction. Alongside this, the recovery rates for those diagnosed with cancer are at an all-time high, and continuing to climb, marking the beginning of an era of hope that the war might finally become little more than a distant memory. When dragons first entered our world through the Fae breaches, we initially didn't know what they were capable of. It quickly became ...

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Winters Tales

Winters TalesOct 24, 2026

So I was procrastinating on writing...

And thanks to a mutual over on tumblr, was reminded that height comparison websites exist, so behold! The Characters of Oathsworn: Ainsel is smol for backstory reasons. Rowan is stacked and that's how I like her (that's also how Ainsel likes her, but she'll die before she admits that).

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Thomas Rippon's Offprint

Thomas Rippon's OffprintOct 24, 2026

Review: Wild Things by Bruce Handy

Handy shines a warm light on the world of children’s literature but hardly sets it on fire.

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Winters Tales

Winters TalesOct 20, 2026

Oathsworn: The Nameless | Prologue: Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Wolf?

1980-something, Somewhere in London

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Winters Tales

Winters TalesOct 20, 2026

Oathsworn: The Nameless

Mushrooms in a circle A door within their midst Mustn’t set a foot in You won’t know what you’ve missed Curtsy to the old ones Do not meet their gaze Bells will send them running Their food will bid you stay Salt around the windowpane Scissors by the bed A bowl of bread and milk outside To save you from the dead

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Winters Tales

Winters TalesOct 20, 2026

Oathsworn: The Nameless | Blurb

Ainsel wants to live a quiet life alone, as she closes the dangerous Fae breaches without any tools, training, or backup; after all, no-one else can do it. Rowan wants to live her life loudly and free of responsibilities, as she tries to close breaches on the down-low with more explosives than any one person should have; after all, no-one else is doing it. Neither of them want to have to go on the run together, as forces older than humanity and more wrathful than god bear down upon them for reas...

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Multi-hyphenate

Multi-hyphenate Oct 11, 2026

How + Why to read + Belle's Reading list: Tech, Art, Politics, Classic Literature.

Since a few people asked! + You can do it too.

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Fixionauta

FixionautaSep 25, 2026

Temporada de Huracanes

La primera edición de esta novela se publicó en 2017, pronto se volvió la lectura de cabecera de los círculos de lectores a mi alrededor, y un poquito por esnobismo y otro poquito por costumbre (ante los productos culturales que capturan la atención del público), le fui sacando la vuelta. Temporada de Huracanes ★★★★ Fernanda...

Hugonaut

HugonautAug 31, 2026

Beautiful For Ever: Paint and Makeup in The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde, Dorian Gray, Friction and Fiction, and Toxic Makeup

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NixAug 31, 2026

The Leopard: A Meditation

A brief missive on Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's The Leopard.

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Fixionauta

FixionautaAug 15, 2026

Días ocupados, aún así he logrado llegar al último tramo de esta novela de Fernanda Melchor. En la anotación anterior hablaba de párrafos... ¡¿pero qué "párrafos"?! ¡En este libro cada capítulo es un solo párrafo de corrido! Al menos hasta ahora. -> Página 205 de 224.

Journey to the End of the ShelfAug 10, 2026

Dispatch from the Trail: Five Books Since May

At this rate, maybe I can finish this project someday after all?

Fixionauta

FixionautaJul 28, 2026

Dos giros en el capítulo IV que me han gustado: Uno relacionado a la historia misma, empieza con el cambio de una sola letra (algo que primero interpreté como un error) y se resuelve avanzando unas pocas páginas. Y otro que juega con la redacción del texto, haciendo un cambio en la manera de narrar...

Journey to the End of the ShelfMay 10, 2026

A Little Lit Roulette

I've selected the last couple of books from my shelf at random, and turns out I prefer it

brennan.dayMay 2, 2026

Writers Who Burned All Their Words feat. Bix Frankonis

I am a compulsive archivist, terrified of losing my words, but many of history's greatest writers asked for theirs to be burned. Kafka, Dickinson, Plath, Virgil all had their reasons. A meditation on self-erasure, ego, and the difference between the writing and the written thing, with an interview with Bix Frankonis, a contemporary writer who one day decided he needed to be smaller online, not bigger.

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really.lolApr 24, 2026

Reading from Mexico to Berlin

We walked into the arrivals hall at Oaxaca airport and we were greeted by my uncle-in-law Tom and his driver Lupe, a Zapotec-Mexican man who had a big smile and cold bottled water for us. As we rolled out onto the highway northwards, Tom started to tell us about how this highway was once blockaded by the teacher's union. They put up barricades throughout the city and shut off the…

brennan.dayMar 25, 2026

STORYTELLING Part One: The Neurology of Narrative

How do our brains physically process stories? The neurology of narrative transportation, brain synchrony between storytellers and listeners, biocultural theory, and Indigenous storytelling traditions that collapse Western narrative structures.

personal essayCreative Writing

brennan.dayMar 23, 2026

REVIEW: To be Un Poeta (2025, dir. Simón Mesa Soto)

A devastating character study of a washed-up Colombian poet who discovers a gifted teenage student, exploring the toxic dynamics of artistic mentorship, racial exploitation in the literary world, and the difference between dedication and self-destruction in the name of art.

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brennan.dayMar 11, 2026

Write Weird Shit

Dogfooding my freewriting; an experiment on why writers need to embrace the weird, unfiltered, and unconventional rather than fearing AI detection.

personal essayCreative Writing

brennan.dayNov 25, 2025

We’ve Known About Thomas King for Over Ten Years.

How do we reckon with Canada’s Pretendian problem?

Academic WritingIndigenous Writing

brennan.dayNov 25, 2025

We’ve Known About Thomas King for Over Ten Years.

How do we reckon with Canada’s Pretendian problem?

Academic WritingIndigenous Writing

brennan.dayNov 12, 2025

In Defence of Rupi Kaur

The Necessary, Complicated Legacy of Canada’s Best-selling Poet

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