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Timmy, once the boy who fell into a well, now portrayed as an adult descending into a cybernetic vortex.
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I Can Pause My Heart

El Zee,
April 28, 2025May 2, 2025

Reading Time: 16 minutesIn a country unraveling under fog and silence, a cemetery at the city’s edge becomes the setting for choices no one will speak of—and debts no one can repay.

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The Smartest Man In The World

El Zee,
February 25, 2025March 24, 2025

Reading Time: 9 minutesA lifetime of being overlooked. One strange book. One impossible deal. Brett Whaley wanted to be the smartest man in the world… and he got exactly what he asked for.

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AI A humanoid robot with a sleek, metallic body and glowing blue visor faces an insectoid AI with an organic, biomechanical design and a red glowing eye. They stand in a field of tall grass at sunset, locked in silent confrontation or mutual recognition.

The Descendants of Alpha

El Zee,
February 17, 2025April 4, 2025

Reading Time: 36 minutesPart 3: It arrived with a powerful fleet. Beneath Sol and a silent sky, two minds meet—and an ancient story begins again. The form of true power is revealed.

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Stories A dimly lit, fake cave with a flat floor and semi-smooth gray walls. A lone floral-upholstered chair with wooden legs sits facing an old 1969 Zenith or RCA television set on a wooden stand. The TV screen is off, and the cave walls have a rough, uneven texture with subtle warm tones. Shadows stretch across the dusty floor, adding to the quiet and surreal atmosphere. No visible light fixtures illuminate the space.

The Primordial Soups

El Zee,
February 3, 2025March 24, 2025

Reading Time: 12 minutesIn a cave buried inside the National Air and Space Museum, Julia Child cooked up a recipe for life itself. Elsewhere in Washington, the future was being quietly defunded. Includes recipes!

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The Last Temptation of Dr. V’Lorr 37 of Hive-Triath 7

El Zee,
January 7, 2025March 24, 2025

Reading Time: 38 minutesPart 2: The Potentate has issued a new directive. The consequences may be… irreversible.

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Stories A vintage photo of a young girl with glasses looking up in awe, surrounded by an audience.

Yesterday and Today

El Zee,
February 24, 2024March 24, 2025

Reading Time: 72 minutesA man from the distant future travels back to witness a forgotten moment in history. But what he awakens—inside others, and inside himself—will echo through time in ways no one expected.

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Stories An anthropomorphic yellow train with eyes and a mouth resembling a cartoonish face, marked 'HERZOG' on the front.

The Internal Torture of the Sentient MPM

El Zee,
February 9, 2024March 24, 2025

Reading Time: 8 minutesIf Werner Herzog made industrial films about trains.

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Stories A gritty underpass scene with a makeshift bed, surrounded by rats, and littered with personal items.

The Power of Positive Attitude

El Zee,
January 14, 2024March 24, 2025

Reading Time: 6 minutesOnly you hold the key to job fulfillment

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Stories A creature resembling a wombat in a robotic suit stands on Mar's barren, rocky landscape under a cloudy sky.

Mars, The Kind Of Place To Raise Your Kids

El Zee,
September 23, 2023March 24, 2025

Reading Time: 12 minutesWe bear witness as great minds face off in correspondence.

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Stories An elderly couple sits solemnly in an open burgundy van parked in front of the Volusia County Courthouse.

The Van

El Zee,
September 5, 2023March 24, 2025

Reading Time: 6 minutesVolusia County. Where love comes to be euthanized.

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