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August 2026- Page 3

Literary Van Goghisation in the Third Millennium

August 21, 2026
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The phenomenon of Van Goghisation, named after the post-impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh whose artistic genius was famously recognised only after his tragic death, describes the structural delay between creative production and critical validation. In the twenty-first century, this mechanism has undergone a profound transformation. Rather than operating as a…
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The Fox One Digit Short

August 20, 2026
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While his eighteen-toed peers spent their evenings perfecting stealthy trots and menacing glares, Seventeentoes harboured a secret passion for Welsh ballroom dancing. Every Saturday evening, he would sneak up to the window of the local village hall, watching the humans glide across the parquet floor to the lively rhythm of…
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The Comfort Trap

August 19, 2026
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Ray Bradbury’s 1953 masterpiece is often reduced to a simple warning against bibliophobia and state-enforced censorship. However, framing the novel merely as an anti-book-burning crusade misses its deeper, far more sinister critique: the destruction of literature in Guy Montag’s world was not initiated by a tyrannical government fearing books, but…
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The Dawn of the Phone Scam

August 19, 2026
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The lounge was blissfully quiet until the telephone’s sudden ring pierced the silence. Dorothy Jameson set her needles aside, stepped across the rug and lifted the heavy receiver cup to her ear, speaking into the mouth-funnel. ‘Hello? Whom do I have the honour of addressing at this outrageous hour?’ ‘Good…
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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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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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