M.S. Vernon
@micahsvernon.bsky.social
Writer. Stories in The Deadlands, Orchid's Lantern, and 3AM Magazine.
The worst people on the internet will look you dead in the face and tell you Fagles' translations are "more poetic":
Fagles: "How many fewer friends had gnawed the dust of the wide world"
Wilson: "Then many Greeks would not have died and taken the boundless earth between their teeth"
Fagles: "How many fewer friends had gnawed the dust of the wide world"
Wilson: "Then many Greeks would not have died and taken the boundless earth between their teeth"
December 19, 2025 at 7:55 AM
The worst people on the internet will look you dead in the face and tell you Fagles' translations are "more poetic":
Fagles: "How many fewer friends had gnawed the dust of the wide world"
Wilson: "Then many Greeks would not have died and taken the boundless earth between their teeth"
Fagles: "How many fewer friends had gnawed the dust of the wide world"
Wilson: "Then many Greeks would not have died and taken the boundless earth between their teeth"
Writing a short story for the first time in a couple of years and saw this. Could it be fate?
Hoping to see more submissions from under-repped groups in my submissions—don't self-reject, it's easier to send me a story about death. We're open until 12/31 (midnight eastern).
psychopomp.com/the-deadland...
psychopomp.com/the-deadland...
The Deadlands Guidelines - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
Fiction
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December 19, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Writing a short story for the first time in a couple of years and saw this. Could it be fate?
On Borges:
The Aleph just simply isn't anywhere near as good of a collection as Ficciones, is it? The stories in Ficciones are simply more explorative in form and theme, while The Aleph seems to hammer home the same themes time and again with less stylistic flair.
The Aleph just simply isn't anywhere near as good of a collection as Ficciones, is it? The stories in Ficciones are simply more explorative in form and theme, while The Aleph seems to hammer home the same themes time and again with less stylistic flair.
December 18, 2025 at 1:07 PM
On Borges:
The Aleph just simply isn't anywhere near as good of a collection as Ficciones, is it? The stories in Ficciones are simply more explorative in form and theme, while The Aleph seems to hammer home the same themes time and again with less stylistic flair.
The Aleph just simply isn't anywhere near as good of a collection as Ficciones, is it? The stories in Ficciones are simply more explorative in form and theme, while The Aleph seems to hammer home the same themes time and again with less stylistic flair.
Rereading Borges, Homer, and The Sopranos at the same time has me coiled in themes of fraternity; heterosexuality; homosociality; labyrinths; mirrors; doubles; reality; unreality; the unity of man, place, history; the flattening of time and the unending extension of it.
December 18, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Rereading Borges, Homer, and The Sopranos at the same time has me coiled in themes of fraternity; heterosexuality; homosociality; labyrinths; mirrors; doubles; reality; unreality; the unity of man, place, history; the flattening of time and the unending extension of it.
Showing this picture to my cats to try and understand how they think
December 18, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Showing this picture to my cats to try and understand how they think
A few birthday books. The Loebs for when I inevitably try to learn Ancient Greek.
December 18, 2025 at 2:16 AM
A few birthday books. The Loebs for when I inevitably try to learn Ancient Greek.
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But tonight Lv1 is alive and in the west
highlands with his herd. It is a perfect
winter evening: the moon rising over
the ice fields, the snow in the wind.
And as he stares into the skybox, there
is 1/50th as much health as usual.
highlands with his herd. It is a perfect
winter evening: the moon rising over
the ice fields, the snow in the wind.
And as he stares into the skybox, there
is 1/50th as much health as usual.
December 17, 2025 at 4:08 AM
But tonight Lv1 is alive and in the west
highlands with his herd. It is a perfect
winter evening: the moon rising over
the ice fields, the snow in the wind.
And as he stares into the skybox, there
is 1/50th as much health as usual.
highlands with his herd. It is a perfect
winter evening: the moon rising over
the ice fields, the snow in the wind.
And as he stares into the skybox, there
is 1/50th as much health as usual.
Borges hits too real today:
"Apart from a few friends and many routines, the problematic pursuit of literature constituted the whole of his life; like every writer, he measured other men's virtues by what they had accomplished, yet asked that other men measure him by what he planned someday to do."
"Apart from a few friends and many routines, the problematic pursuit of literature constituted the whole of his life; like every writer, he measured other men's virtues by what they had accomplished, yet asked that other men measure him by what he planned someday to do."
December 16, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Borges hits too real today:
"Apart from a few friends and many routines, the problematic pursuit of literature constituted the whole of his life; like every writer, he measured other men's virtues by what they had accomplished, yet asked that other men measure him by what he planned someday to do."
"Apart from a few friends and many routines, the problematic pursuit of literature constituted the whole of his life; like every writer, he measured other men's virtues by what they had accomplished, yet asked that other men measure him by what he planned someday to do."
New @tobiasvryan.bsky.social book has hit Australian shores. Do I sneak it in as a quick read while I'm in between books?
December 15, 2025 at 3:20 AM
New @tobiasvryan.bsky.social book has hit Australian shores. Do I sneak it in as a quick read while I'm in between books?
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the good that you do persists in this world
December 14, 2025 at 8:20 PM
the good that you do persists in this world
Some fresh jazz history
December 14, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Some fresh jazz history
Excited to get to these. Newly translated Elena Garro collection and biography.
December 14, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Excited to get to these. Newly translated Elena Garro collection and biography.
"Whatsoever one man does, it is as though all men did it. That is why it is not unfair that a single act of disobedience in a garden should contaminate all humanity; that is why it is not unfair that a single Jew's crucifixion should be enough to save it."
Borges, The Shape of the Sword (Hurley tr)
Borges, The Shape of the Sword (Hurley tr)
December 13, 2025 at 11:23 AM
"Whatsoever one man does, it is as though all men did it. That is why it is not unfair that a single act of disobedience in a garden should contaminate all humanity; that is why it is not unfair that a single Jew's crucifixion should be enough to save it."
Borges, The Shape of the Sword (Hurley tr)
Borges, The Shape of the Sword (Hurley tr)
I read the final book in Jay Kristoff's Empire of the Vampire trilogy and I ended up having a lot of conflicting thoughts about this extremely silly vampire fantasy, and about how much artistic credit we can give to assuredly artless pulp: habitualblood.wordpress.com/2025/12/13/a...
Art and Artifice in Jay Kristoff’s Empire of the Dawn
!!WARNING: FULL SPOILERS AHEAD!! Jay Kristoff is a teenager. At 52 years old he willingly wears a pencil goatee, features lyrics from popular metalcore bands as epigraphs in his novels, and has jus…
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December 13, 2025 at 8:26 AM
I read the final book in Jay Kristoff's Empire of the Vampire trilogy and I ended up having a lot of conflicting thoughts about this extremely silly vampire fantasy, and about how much artistic credit we can give to assuredly artless pulp: habitualblood.wordpress.com/2025/12/13/a...
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December 13, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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I liked the new Knives Out.
December 13, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I liked the new Knives Out.
Trying to resist the urge to write an essay about heterosexuality in The Sopranos trying to resist the urge to write an essay about heterosexuality in The Sopranos trying to resist the urge to write an essay about heterosexuality in The Sopranos trying to resist the urge to write an essay about het
December 11, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Trying to resist the urge to write an essay about heterosexuality in The Sopranos trying to resist the urge to write an essay about heterosexuality in The Sopranos trying to resist the urge to write an essay about heterosexuality in The Sopranos trying to resist the urge to write an essay about het
By not responding, you all brought this on yourselves.
I am going to look into this whole starting a publishing business business.
I am going to look into this whole starting a publishing business business.
Genuine inquiry for Australian literati folk: on a scale of 1-10, how bad of an idea would it be if I wanted to start a small publishing business for weird Aus litfic?
December 9, 2025 at 8:34 PM
By not responding, you all brought this on yourselves.
I am going to look into this whole starting a publishing business business.
I am going to look into this whole starting a publishing business business.
Genuine inquiry for Australian literati folk: on a scale of 1-10, how bad of an idea would it be if I wanted to start a small publishing business for weird Aus litfic?
December 9, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Genuine inquiry for Australian literati folk: on a scale of 1-10, how bad of an idea would it be if I wanted to start a small publishing business for weird Aus litfic?
Thought I looked pretty cute here
December 8, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Thought I looked pretty cute here
Rereading Borges and he really was just the best to ever do it. Authors have written thousand-page works attempting to find the infinity Borges could conjure in ten.
December 5, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Rereading Borges and he really was just the best to ever do it. Authors have written thousand-page works attempting to find the infinity Borges could conjure in ten.
Just finished The Will of the Many by James Islington and I need to read something that will make me think now because I could feel it draining my Mind Juice with every page.
December 5, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Just finished The Will of the Many by James Islington and I need to read something that will make me think now because I could feel it draining my Mind Juice with every page.
I don't do streaming services so here's my 2025 in Music...Wrapped:
December 4, 2025 at 9:40 AM
I don't do streaming services so here's my 2025 in Music...Wrapped:
My favourite album of 2025 is this this Still House Plants album from 2024: stillhouseplants.bandcamp.com/album/if-i-d...
If I don’t make it, I love u, by Still House Plants
11 track album
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December 3, 2025 at 5:52 AM
My favourite album of 2025 is this this Still House Plants album from 2024: stillhouseplants.bandcamp.com/album/if-i-d...
Reading The Iliad with six different translations open at once so I judge them by the vibe and shake my head when I, a layman, determine one's gotten it wrong.
November 30, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Reading The Iliad with six different translations open at once so I judge them by the vibe and shake my head when I, a layman, determine one's gotten it wrong.