I. The drill bit screams through ice older than human civilization, and Kira feels it in her teeth. Sixty meters down in Europa's crust, the vibration travels up through the rig, through her suit, through bone. She's been on surface for four months now. Two more until rotation back to Ganymede. Her radiation counter ticks. … Continue reading The Separation
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Zuihitsu, 2025-12
These aren’t polished essays or tidy aphorisms. They’re scraps I’ve carried around this month—half-heard thoughts, borrowed lines, sudden recognitions—that refused to be forgotten. Zuihitsu literally means “following the brush,” and while my version is shorter and scrappier than the classical form, the impulse feels the same: to catch what drifts across the mind before it … Continue reading Zuihitsu, 2025-12
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