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To Her Critic
Ekaterina Muraveva · Poetry · September 2026
Her poems digest what you keep:
this unusual, spirited skepsis that reeks
of performance and sleek derogatory
this unusual, spirited skepsis that reeks
of performance and sleek derogatory
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Bulă, or How We Invented Quantum
Jaia Papitz
A literary satire about laughter, bureaucracy, and the small cosmic errors that keep reality from sealing itself shut.
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Humanity Erased
Zahra Oveisi
I walked out of the publishing house into what felt like a robotic version of life.
The vein on my forehead was still throbbing from what the publisher had said to me.
I could not believe he had allowed himself to speak that way.
The vein on my forehead was still throbbing from what the publisher had said to me.
I could not believe he had allowed himself to speak that way.
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Essays
Abstaining from art
Davor Tocinovski
This textually - documented art performance, on which I will elaborate upon in this narr…
In essence, the artistic action is undertaken from another author, but I am exploiting e…
our interest lies only in taking on the idea that one should not work and act, i.e.
In essence, the artistic action is undertaken from another author, but I am exploiting e…
our interest lies only in taking on the idea that one should not work and act, i.e.
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Thomas J. Misuraca
by Thomas J.
Misuraca CHARACTERS PERSON ONE PERSON TWO SETTING An office.
TIME Lunchtime.
Misuraca CHARACTERS PERSON ONE PERSON TWO SETTING An office.
TIME Lunchtime.
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Shadows of Authority
Maryam Emadi
These poems and prose pieces were written in response to encounters with the changing fa…
Curated in the fewest possible words, they do not recount but stage: the poems as fragme…
Read together, distinct yet whole, they trace shifting terrains of exposure, relation, a…
Curated in the fewest possible words, they do not recount but stage: the poems as fragme…
Read together, distinct yet whole, they trace shifting terrains of exposure, relation, a…
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The Station Keeper, 2094
Alexey Nekrasov
Dear reader, Before I begin this story, I should mention that the events described here …
The more progressive part of mankind, however, simply calls it the beginning of the New …
The decades leading up to these events witnessed an extraordinary surge in information t…
The more progressive part of mankind, however, simply calls it the beginning of the New …
The decades leading up to these events witnessed an extraordinary surge in information t…
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From the archive
Jaia Papitz · 2011 · Poetry
A recovered text from the first iExile body — returned to circulation, not as nostalgia, but because it still burns.
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2009 — Quest
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2012 — Symbolics
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2014 — Of Else
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