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    Styles Yugen
    • Oct 16, 2021

    Cliff of Absolution

    There is a cliff at the end of the road and you’re racing towards it at the speed of a barreling car. It grows closer by the second and...

    Styles Yugen
    • Oct 14, 2021

    Kindness

    As the old saying goes: The saddest person is the kindest soul I gave this some thought, magnificent bastards, and I'm still unsettled by...

    Styles Yugen
    • Oct 13, 2021

    Soft

    My insides go soft Thinking fondly of before I want to go back

    Styles Yugen
    • Apr 26, 2021

    Destination Unknown

    There’s a place nobody knows. No explorer has ever beheld its beauty, no astronaut ever gazed upon its abyss, no person ever experienced...

    Styles Yugen
    • Mar 29, 2021

    Acquaintances

    Boats cross in the night. They shine as a brilliant star. Then come morning, part.

    Styles Yugen
    • Mar 8, 2021

    Gestalt Nightfall

    It’s nightfall again and you’re in the same place you were for the last, and the one before that. Little is different, if anything at...

    Styles Yugen
    • Mar 1, 2021

    Serenity Wakes

    I went to a wedding once. You know, one of those ceremonies that you read about in history books or see in classics from centuries ago. ...

    Styles Yugen
    • Feb 22, 2021

    Biggest Fish

    Ideas are tranquil in the way standing in the middle of a placid river, water up to your waist, in the midst of the dog days of summer is....

    Styles Yugen
    • Feb 15, 2021

    Twice Sacrificed Paradise

    Paradise exists only in your head. It is a placebo invented by the psyche to make misery more palatable, to make it easier to get out of...

    Styles Yugen
    • Feb 8, 2021

    Dreamtime Absolution

    You have a dream. It is a good one. But then you wake up, sad about something you can’t quite put your finger on. You can’t remember...

    Styles Yugen
    • Feb 1, 2021

    Unsolicited Anchor

    I had a relationship once, it went a little like this: Met the person in the dark ages, became acquaintances and then dated someone else...

    Styles Yugen
    • Jan 25, 2021

    Shinrinyoku

    The world is mad. Not that it went mad, or was anything otherwise; it has always been mad. We live in a mad world. The evidence is all...

    Styles Yugen
    • Jan 18, 2021

    Misery is Void

    I scream into the void hoping that something acknowledges my existence. An echo, a shuffle, an answering scream: anything to mark that I...

    Styles Yugen
    • Jan 11, 2021

    Misery is Numb

    I look to the world and find no hope. I look to myself and see no future. And finally I look up to the stars and see everything that...

    Styles Yugen
    • Jan 4, 2021

    The Icarus Delusion

    Imagine an ocean. A small boat sits on the surface, bobbing in accordance to the waves, and far above the sun burns hot. You know,...

    Styles Yugen
    • Dec 28, 2020

    The Icarus Illusion

    I can’t stand it when I’m told to smile. I’ll smile when I damn well please, not for your pleasure or comfort. I’ll smile when it’s...

    Styles Yugen
    • Dec 22, 2020

    Vampires

    Ever hear of those old mythological creatures? The ones that can turn into bats at will, are afraid of garlic, and don’t have a...

    Styles Yugen
    • Dec 7, 2020

    Blues for a Dying Star

    Time is a constant relative. It passes the same for each who experiences it, one second per second into the future--just a long line...

    Styles Yugen
    • Nov 30, 2020

    Liminal Time

    You’re up late, the last night before leaving to home the next. Outside the streetlight buzzes and the aircon across the street rumbles...

    Styles Yugen
    • Nov 9, 2020

    Synthetic Love

    True love is a myth. It pains me to say it because all those times I’ve lain in bed staring at the ceiling and dreamed about it are for...

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    Science Fiction and the pursuit of escapism, 2020.