Fiction WritingTwenty films set on cruise ships and ocean liners, from Titanic's class-divided sinking to Triangle of Sadness's savage yacht satire to The Love Boat's aspirational not-sinking. The ship is never just a ship. It's a floating world, a class system,…
2000sStanley Kubrick developed the project for years before his death; Steven Spielberg completed it as a tribute. The first act honors the premise.
2010sPredestination is a clever puzzle in search of a reason to exist. The temporal loop at its center, a person who is their own parent, their own child, and their own nemesis, is logically consistent in a way that time…
American DecayWhen an asteroid fills the sky and the world has forty minutes left, a grocery store cashier named Denise keeps doing her job, scanning items and asking paper or plastic, because the routine is the only thing holding everything together.
AmbiguityA surgeon works through her thirty-second hour straight when an unidentified man arrives with stab wounds. His blood types don't match any classification. His wounds heal faster than surgical sutures can hold them.
AmbiguityA violin maker finishes his masterpiece and realizes it plays something he didn't intend, not the notes he drew, but the grief he carries. What happens when an instrument becomes honest about what its maker can't say.
American DecayA graduate student finds Atlantis off the coast of Sardinia and discovers stone tablets inside — an 8,000-year-old mathematical warning about rising seas, sealed in a vault by people who knew they were drowning.
ChildhoodThe Ferrante family gathers every August at their house on Mount Etna — rebuilt three times after lava flows — until a sixteen-year-old's question at breakfast cracks them all open.
EspionageIn a basement milonga during Argentina's Dirty War, a resistance courier dances tango with an intelligence operative who carries a list of seven people scheduled to disappear.
AmbiguityCursed by Apollo to speak true prophecy that no one believes, Cassandra watches Troy fall exactly as she predicted — and sees, in her final moment, every truth-teller who will follow her.
FictionAn ice analyst survives a helicopter crash in the Arctic and discovers her employer delayed rescue for six hours to retrieve proprietary data from something anomalous beneath the ice.
Black ComedyA turkey lives her whole life on a free-range farm. She hatches, loves, mothers. She doesn't know what Thanksgiving means. A horror story from the inside.
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