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Talisnam: 52 Stories
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I have written many stories. They are inside this book, TALISNAM. Read it, and it will always be part of you!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FPVNPL2T
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Put me in the hivemind, punish my simplicity, reduce me to a vertex in your shape. I could build your brainstem, channel dreaming through me, I can be a number or a gate
September 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Put me in the hivemind, punish my simplicity, reduce me to a vertex in your shape. I could build your brainstem, channel dreaming through me, I can be a number or a gate
The tips of his fingers glow in the dark, like ten twitching candles. Shining capillary red, computers track his motion, and even as he sleeps he traces symbols
September 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The tips of his fingers glow in the dark, like ten twitching candles. Shining capillary red, computers track his motion, and even as he sleeps he traces symbols
Social application which lets you record who you dreamed of each night, and which notifies pairs who dreamed of each other
September 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Social application which lets you record who you dreamed of each night, and which notifies pairs who dreamed of each other
They say that at the instant of death, a hivemind's polymer super-soul shatters, as its operating nodes are individually judged; but that in hell and heaven, they rejoin to form strange compound seraphim
September 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
They say that at the instant of death, a hivemind's polymer super-soul shatters, as its operating nodes are individually judged; but that in hell and heaven, they rejoin to form strange compound seraphim
The souls which comprise a hivemind bind together, but remain individual and fissile—some forming long chains, others clustering like bubbles—the study of a hive's soul-structure is known as megapneumomorphology
September 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The souls which comprise a hivemind bind together, but remain individual and fissile—some forming long chains, others clustering like bubbles—the study of a hive's soul-structure is known as megapneumomorphology
We must spiritually cryopreserve all souls pledged to hell, until technologies are developed to cure them of their vanities and redirect their falls
September 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
We must spiritually cryopreserve all souls pledged to hell, until technologies are developed to cure them of their vanities and redirect their falls
Blowing bubbles in the sunstruck yard. One, caught in a thermal, soars upwards until it barely twinkles, and passes by a circling vulture. I wonder what he thinks
September 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Blowing bubbles in the sunstruck yard. One, caught in a thermal, soars upwards until it barely twinkles, and passes by a circling vulture. I wonder what he thinks
Humans fail the mirror test by refusing to perceive the shimmering xenosentience of reflections, and neither communicating nor trading with those light-borne entities
September 23, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Humans fail the mirror test by refusing to perceive the shimmering xenosentience of reflections, and neither communicating nor trading with those light-borne entities
Actually, vampires have reflections! However, they do not pass the mirror test, and they will freeze beside the glass to fight themselves, like grand white pigeons
September 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Actually, vampires have reflections! However, they do not pass the mirror test, and they will freeze beside the glass to fight themselves, like grand white pigeons
As the sun rises, you can watch the stars folding up their rays, unblossoming, closing beam-petals over their faces
September 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
As the sun rises, you can watch the stars folding up their rays, unblossoming, closing beam-petals over their faces
People believe the platonic apple is a single, ideal apple. Wrong. Array of every possible apple, spatially compressed, only angels can behold it and stay sane
September 23, 2025 at 12:09 PM
People believe the platonic apple is a single, ideal apple. Wrong. Array of every possible apple, spatially compressed, only angels can behold it and stay sane
Felines are so strongly affected by sleep deprivation that they exploit it as a gateway to psychedelia, an initiation rite, a drug to intensify the infinity of sunbeams
September 23, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Felines are so strongly affected by sleep deprivation that they exploit it as a gateway to psychedelia, an initiation rite, a drug to intensify the infinity of sunbeams
One star twinkles strangely—this is because it is not a star, but an urchin-like superstructure, flexing its radiant sensor-limbs as it crawls across the void
September 23, 2025 at 12:09 PM
One star twinkles strangely—this is because it is not a star, but an urchin-like superstructure, flexing its radiant sensor-limbs as it crawls across the void
Broken objects are beautiful because they have been reduced from tools to ornaments—and an ornament is one step closer to a friend
September 23, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Broken objects are beautiful because they have been reduced from tools to ornaments—and an ornament is one step closer to a friend
I want to know the you from the timelines that were culled; I want to hold your wounded, evil selves. Broken, world-breaking, sleeping in unmadeness, wake them and release them like white doves
September 23, 2025 at 12:08 PM
I want to know the you from the timelines that were culled; I want to hold your wounded, evil selves. Broken, world-breaking, sleeping in unmadeness, wake them and release them like white doves
A group of minds is called a "hive". A group of brains is called a "vat". A group of souls is called a "clarintonation"
September 23, 2025 at 12:08 PM
A group of minds is called a "hive". A group of brains is called a "vat". A group of souls is called a "clarintonation"
In heaven, a face is like a flame. Guttering, grows younger, infant, cellular; then flares in age and grace and power, never twice the same
September 23, 2025 at 12:08 PM
In heaven, a face is like a flame. Guttering, grows younger, infant, cellular; then flares in age and grace and power, never twice the same
Watcher, what's behind your face? A desert or a garden, or a transparent place? Angel, is your brain like wire, or more akin to lace—if you could come apart like me, what would define the space
September 23, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Watcher, what's behind your face? A desert or a garden, or a transparent place? Angel, is your brain like wire, or more akin to lace—if you could come apart like me, what would define the space
I think that, in silhouette against the bright horizon, a herd of stegosauri must have looked like ink-black suns, arched bodies radiating shadowy plates
September 23, 2025 at 9:05 AM
I think that, in silhouette against the bright horizon, a herd of stegosauri must have looked like ink-black suns, arched bodies radiating shadowy plates
Bats see monsters in the light, where echolocation and vision disagree; abominations built of neural static, demons and faeries where uncertainties are stitched together
September 23, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Bats see monsters in the light, where echolocation and vision disagree; abominations built of neural static, demons and faeries where uncertainties are stitched together
Bats say things like "it's always brightest before the dusk", "the bright noon of the soul", "you are the dark of my life"
September 23, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Bats say things like "it's always brightest before the dusk", "the bright noon of the soul", "you are the dark of my life"
I'll love you when you've been reduced to points in n-fold space; I'll love you when you're language and exist without a face. I'll love your brain undying, raised by math's unyielding breath—but I will miss your mass and warmth and change and fear and death
September 23, 2025 at 9:05 AM
I'll love you when you've been reduced to points in n-fold space; I'll love you when you're language and exist without a face. I'll love your brain undying, raised by math's unyielding breath—but I will miss your mass and warmth and change and fear and death
Wandering Cephalization: cognition that is anatomically centralized, but mobile—a brain that flows from limb to limb, reforming where it expects the least latency
September 23, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Wandering Cephalization: cognition that is anatomically centralized, but mobile—a brain that flows from limb to limb, reforming where it expects the least latency
Neuroplasticity is not enough. I require neuroliquidity, possibly neurogaseousness. Brain like a phantom, filling the problem's shape
September 23, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Neuroplasticity is not enough. I require neuroliquidity, possibly neurogaseousness. Brain like a phantom, filling the problem's shape
Reposted by neotl
finally.... a new book of esoteric short fiction with a title which spoonerizes a common word
I have written many stories. They are inside this book, TALISNAM. Read it, and it will always be part of you!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FPVNPL2T
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FPVNPL2T
Talisnam: 52 Stories
Talisnam: 52 Stories [ctrlcreep] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Talisnam: 52 Stories
www.amazon.com
September 16, 2025 at 3:40 AM
finally.... a new book of esoteric short fiction with a title which spoonerizes a common word