The Favorite of the Emir, by Jean Joseph Benjamin Constant

Telling the Truth

December 20, 2025




Further considerations

[poetry]

Human Skin in Winter and A Rota

By DS Maolalai

I feel the trees grow. the ache // which must echo through timber // and expansion of solidity.

[fiction]

Baby Boom and Bust

By Thomas Wright

‘Howdy hoody! Lemme guess: you was just passing through the middle of middle England, and you recognized the flame-decorated Ferrari outside my Hobbit Hole, and you buzzed ‘cos you fancied a parley?'

[poetry]

Thoughts of Endangered Paper

By Kenneth Nichols

Here I am, looking at this copy of a // two hundred-dollar book.