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J.S. Allen
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Author of the fantasy adventure novel A BAD PLACE BEST FORGOTTEN. Neurodivergent photographer, artist, data scientist. Lover of nature and wisdom.
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Magic the Gathering card: an artifact that generates snake counters
November 28, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Water surface study #3 with urban scenery
Trinity River in Fort Worth
music by @billywaynebolin.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Water surface study #2
Trinity River in Fort Worth
music by @billywaynebolin.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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Water surface study #1
Trinity River in Fort Worth
November 20, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Emerging
This #art commemorated my passage out of graduate school
stylized image of train tracks with a light emerging from a tunnel in the distance
November 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Descending into the cave.
Bad photography
bad photograph of shadowy figures
November 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Tree growing out of a cave near Dripping Springs, Texas.
Tree growing out of a cave, from the perspective inside the cave
November 9, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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More disposable camera #photography
Blinding sunlight on a cactus and grass
November 9, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Old house near Big Bend National Park.
Shot with disposable camera
#photography
dusk shot of an old house ruin in silhouette, the colors of the sunset showing through a window
November 9, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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green lumps
Lumpy bushes, green with brown sections, resembling tree tops
September 28, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Penty Gone
#art
inverted color and distorted overhead image of the national pentagram
September 26, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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split flavor orbs
Yellow, green, orange, and red baby tomatoes, sliced in half, scattered across a cutting board
September 26, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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The dog in question likes a long walk
Blurry, out-of-frame dog face with a yellow street sign in the background reading NO OUTLET
September 12, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Same rock at the start and end of yesterday’s dog walking
A large, flat rock with scattered pine needles casting sharp, curvy shadows Same rock, same pine needles, but no shadows and a cooler light
September 12, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Please read this important information
Mismatched stickers reading P13014 along with a hopelessly degraded sticker with small print against a gray, gouged background
September 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Photo inside the carwash
Red wet shape
August 29, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Observed in Austin
Graffiti reading “All is one,” with a heart motif
August 29, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Tome Time
distorted image of a young man with a baby on his lap reading a tome on a table with a high chair in the background; a pacifier rests nearby
August 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Heavens Ate Baker
#art
a more abstract image derived from the previous one, with just the middle section of the image repeated, now with a purple and black color scheme
August 18, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Car of Baker
#art
stylized image with vertical symmetry, a rotated car mirrored on the left and right, with greenery
August 18, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Monkey in lock-up with Frida Kahlo, as displayed at a local high school
Portrait of Frida Kahlo with a monkey’s face peering over her shoulder. The image is framed in metal with a tight mesh covering it
August 13, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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New Delhi circa 1994
Man pedals a bicycle rickshaw down a wide street while a black and white cow watches
August 9, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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A chicken
A chicken walking across the dirt
August 8, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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This is me
giant splayed hands in front of the camera with a tiny, frightened-looking head with glasses showing between the fingers
August 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Give us your castaways, your tales of remnants and remainders, of subsistence against the odds. What is left behind? Who walks among the ruins? Why do I have this vestigial arm?

Spoon Knife 11: Remnants call for poetry, memoir, fiction:
autpress.com/2025/07/call...
a disintegrating boat on the shore; photo by Brian Smith
August 4, 2025 at 7:49 PM