The Heirloom Lounge
A short story. A sci-fi short story. A kitchen-sink sci-fi short story. You’ve been warned. The flight had been delayed for another hour and my glasses had just been bricked by yet another update. Plus...
View ArticleSeoul Station
More fiction. Because I can. And because it’s August and all of you are probably off vacationing anyway. If you think it’s unsettling to suddenly find yourself in a strange place, with no idea how you...
View ArticleThe Art of Gig
I don’t talk about my consulting gigs much on this blog, since there is surprisingly little overlap between my money-making work and my writing. But many people seem to be very curious about precisely...
View ArticleThe Art of Gig II
Read Part I first. I shut the door of the conference room gently behind us. We could still hear Khan and Isabella out in the reception area, but their voices were now muted. Saul seemed to be in some...
View ArticleThe Art of Gig III
And now for the thrilling finale. Read Parts I and II first. I exited the AspireKat building at a slight trot. Time was of the essence. Anscombe was scurrying to keep up with me, trying to type with...
View ArticleThe Berliners #1
Introducing The Berliners, an experimental ribbonfarm comic strip inspired by (but not limited to) Isaiah Berlin’s Fox and Hedgehog. Drawn by Grace, written by Venkat. Please bear with us while we both...
View ArticleThe Liminal Explorer of the Adjacent Possible
A short story. The city was content in the deepening twilight, as the Sun set with the air of a job well done. Wrought iron street lamps flickered to life and small birds twittered in the bushes on the...
View ArticleBourbon Crossing
Late one night, wandering drunk through the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, far from the cell towers and bright lights of Gatlinburg, Karim al-Marin tripped over a root, flailed his arms wildly, and sat...
View ArticleProlegomena to Any Dark-Age Psychohistory
When I think about history, the picture in my head is that of a roiling canvas of many choppy, intertwingled narrative streams, enveloped by many-hued nebulous fogs of mood and temper. Star-like cosmic...
View ArticleConvergent Evolution
Similarly to how social media collapsed high and low culture into a sinuous, middling unibrow; it made room for the fringe to graze the mainstream while allowing outliers and niche practitioners a foot...
View ArticleHyperreality Prevails
To picture a rhinoceros in Renaissance Portugal, consider the unicorn. Whether conflated with the oryx or the narwhal at its southernmost and northernmost coordinates, the unicorn was no less of a...
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