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Beyond Blank

Literature lightens the inborn loneliness of existence, reminding us that our deepest fears and highest hopes belong to us all. Without that shared flame, we are left only with the smoke of forgotten thoughts drifting into the dark…

An Adaptation of Flesh

August 18, 2026
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By this year, the one hundred and twenty-sixth of the Third Millennium, war had become history. Children learnt about it from museum walls and antique films where men in uniforms launched drones across muddy fields. They learnt the names of dead countries, dead generals and dead cities. They learnt that…
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Censoring the Shades

August 18, 2026
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Our story takes place in the very country where the play of Romeo and Juliet was completely banned for ‘promoting paedophilic attitudes towards minors’. Yes, unfortunately, it was this same nation where our team of biologists managed to engineer the most perfect black-hole tulips in existence. Within days, however, those…
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The Missing E.P. Stone Files

August 17, 2026
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It was a cheerless Tuesday morning in London and the fog was as thick as cold porridge. Detective Fred Flint sat at his battered oak desk, nursing a lukewarm cup of tea and staring blankly out of the misty window. Opposite him, Detective Barney Rubb was vigorously trying to remove…
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The Ancient Radar

August 17, 2026
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Ah, sweet Jamaica. It was the true fuel of the Ancient Radar. Stationed almost ninety feet above the rolling deck of HMS Defiance, Tim adjusted his woollen cap and gripped the wooden spar with the practised terror of a man who had been doing this for twenty years. As the…
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𝐓𝖍𝖊 𝕭𝖔𝖔𝖐 𝐓𝖍𝖆𝖙 𝕹𝖊𝖛𝖊𝖗 𝑾𝖆𝖘

August 16, 2026
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To review a book that contains not a single word feels initially like a nonsensical exercise in literary absurdity. Yet 𝐓𝖍𝖊 𝕽𝖊𝖘𝖙 𝙄𝖘 𝑺𝖎𝖑𝖊𝖓𝖈𝖊, printed in London in the late spring of 1598, is perhaps the most radical artifact in the history of the bound volume. Published exactly one year…
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The Lost & The Found

August 16, 2026
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Vincent stood on the drizzle-dampened pavement outside a soot-stained brick building that was squeezed between an artisan bakery and a dry cleaner’s. The faded gilt lettering across the frosted glass door read: Municipal Lost Property Office & Miscellaneous Recovery. He adjusted his collar, took three shallow breaths and checked his…
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The Midnight Tinkerer

August 15, 2026
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‘If one day,’ he thought, ‘all humans will be like me, then I shall become rich with my invention.’ He saw many billions flying before his greedy eyes. From that day onwards, Everett worked tirelessly to perfect his moonglasses.…
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Former diplomat and globetrotter, Dan Costinas is a versatile contemporary writer, translator, and editor. A true polyglot, he has authored and contributed to several dozen books spanning mainly fiction, essays, aphorisms, reviews and criticism, journalism, and poetry.

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