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2026 6

  1. Symposium RETURNS
  2. Once Upon A Time in Argentina
  3. A novel of revenge by Brady Putzke
  4. A poetry collection by Annie Hendrix
  5. A Sci-fi Novel by M. K. Weaving
  6. New Book Releases from the STSC Members

2025 63

  1. 4th Annual Fiction Issue
  2. Senior Jeopardy!
  3. Zinfandel
  4. Spawn
  5. The RC Car
  6. The Good Life
  7. The Good Life
  8. Walking as Inactivity
  9. Speed
  10. I Made an Album With the World's Fastest AI Rapper
  11. Enough, enough and never enough
  12. Meet Your Maker
  13. Lunch Route
  14. Connection
  15. How Googlet Got Me Thinking about Connection
  16. Everyone I meet online is an idiot
  17. Connection
  18. The Joshua Connection
  19. 52 Inches
  20. Summer
  21. Summer is the explosion of fruit while caterpillars are the explosion of juice
  22. The Ferryman
  23. There And Back Again
  24. The bard of small things
  25. Touch Grass
  26. The Dreamer Who Wanted to Touch Grass
  27. Your feet shake the Earth through your skeleton all the way down into the soil, and the worms giggle
  28. Frog: Who drew it best?
  29. The Art of Changing No One's Mind
  30. We could buy a woodland
  31. Sports
  32. Aussie Rules Football and Melbourne
  33. My (Non-) Sporting Life
  34. ODE TO FOOTBALL
  35. Life in the Lower Leagues
  36. Rant
  37. The trouble with Substack
  38. Your kitchen, your rules
  39. Just Write Cool Shit
  40. Hey, wait. I got a new complaint
  41. Spring Cleaning
  42. From There to Here
  43. Tip of the Iceberg
  44. Medicine Woman
  45. Leisure
  46. Our Father Used To Sing Songs In The Summer
  47. Movie Recommendations: 3 Wordless Features
  48. The Dusk of Decadence
  49. In praise of David Ackles
  50. When you dream, what do you dream about?
  51. Embracing NYC through a cold February
  52. Dare to dream
  53. Perfectly Round Eggs On A Saturday Afternoon
  54. The Jade Racket
  55. Resolutions
  56. The Roots That Held The Earth
  57. I sent some texts on the good life
  58. Dino Play
  59. Vanity fair.
  60. Welcome to the afterlife of ordinary thigns
  61. Do good and disappear
  62. I don't like ice-breakers
  63. How Khorya And Borya Smuggled A Chort

2024 135

  1. 3rd Annual Fiction Issue
  2. Second String
  3. The evening class institute
  4. Mind Tuner Theater Presents: Feast
  5. Boundaries, property, and other words I don't love using about my heart
  6. If crisis or war comes
  7. On Bubbles and Awkward Silence
  8. Rizz
  9. Mistress of the Dream Realm
  10. Delusions of Grandeur
  11. Poetry Writing and Me
  12. A Walk In The Park
  13. The tale of a cigar on the morning after
  14. No News is Good News
  15. The E_ection Special
  16. Mind Tuner Theater Presents: Electric Love
  17. a leaf house
  18. Dream
  19. About that music of ours
  20. A Walk to Trafalgar
  21. The Icy Staircase
  22. Love, lust, and edibles
  23. Books My Father Bought For Me
  24. Of Masterpieces & Scraps
  25. Five Poems, Five Collages
  26. Growth
  27. How to Grow Your Audience!!!
  28. A completely inanimate object
  29. Symmetry
  30. Hopeless Romance
  31. A Dark and Stormy Night
  32. The boutique store down the road
  33. We need a Reformation More than a Renaissance
  34. My Great Work of Fiction
  35. Thank you, Charles Beaumont
  36. The day they bury me.
  37. Letter to Brian Wilson
  38. Flight
  39. 1000 Words: Edvard Munch's "The Scream"
  40. small things
  41. TRUSTWORTHY TRUST
  42. How I got non-student borrowing privileges at the local university library
  43. Autumn Cranes
  44. The Books I Bought For My Mom
  45. The Bare Naked Elegance of a Pasta Dish
  46. The Harsh Reality of Manhattan's Geography
  47. Success at last!
  48. Meet Your Maker
  49. The true and tragic tale of Guillaume du Vintrais
  50. The Duality of Genius and Idiocy
  51. Unplugged Ears Lead to Open Eyes
  52. I Picked Two Daisies This Morning,
  53. Finders Keepers
  54. Chimera
  55. In Praise of Imagination
  56. My Inner Child is Lying to Me
  57. Deagle
  58. Meaningscapes
  59. Selfish Leisure
  60. Behind every magician is a lovely assistant.
  61. Notes from an idler at large
  62. Catch and Release
  63. An Observer of Nature
  64. In Praise of Incrementalism
  65. No Accounting For Taste
  66. Habit
  67. Shocking but Leo Tolstoy was indeed a Gigachad
  68. The critic saves the day again; or, shameless self-promotion disguised as art
  69. Revised: Peacocking Bookcases
  70. The Church of Art
  71. Hello My Name Is
  72. Idling
  73. Life Debt
  74. Embroidered Realities and Digital Reefs
  75. A lost diamond
  76. Solving the Driverless Car Problem
  77. The Last of the White Eyed Warrior
  78. Perspective
  79. Letters to the Roman Friend
  80. But What If The Singularity Is Benign?
  81. Remember
  82. Homo Captivus
  83. Thoughts On Poetry Collections As I Garden
  84. Self-loathing
  85. The root of distrust stuck in a meat grinder
  86. The Labyrinth of Life
  87. The Tees That Bind
  88. Bruce Springsteen’s Final Shot at Greatness
  89. Regret
  90. There’s yer tawkin’ fox movies and yer tawkin’ pig movies
  91. 10 more photos - Kathmandu
  92. The Overdone Window
  93. A Short Introduction To Syllogismatics
  94. I'm so lonely...
  95. The Vacant Crown
  96. Money, Money, Money
  97. On the divine nature of matter.
  98. Hollow Sound
  99. Is that a fork in George Krueger's pocket?
  100. Preconception
  101. The Lords of Summer
  102. 10 Photos - Kathmandu
  103. CATHEDRAL | Chapter One - Four Years Out
  104. There Are No Gatekeepers
  105. How to Win the War on Drugs
  106. A Dangerous Smile
  107. Visions of Kholstomerica
  108. Automated Writing
  109. A Golden Age
  110. Embrace Life, Embrace Death ⌛
  111. The one and the many
  112. Hugo and The Lucky Break
  113. Impossible to Please Everyone
  114. Mrs Aida Elm mixes up her medicines.
  115. Buses
  116. Love/Hate for New York as a New Parent
  117. Related by marriage.
  118. Cid in the architecture
  119. Amazement
  120. The Parable of the Butterfly
  121. The Man in Korea
  122. The First Rider
  123. Attention Ecology
  124. Love Imitates Art
  125. We Are Test Pilots
  126. Glimpses Behind The Curtain
  127. Windows
  128. On Literature, Revolution, Entropy, and Other Matters
  129. One and a half knots
  130. The Morning After Midnight
  131. A tricky personal moment during a bad disaster
  132. Cathedral: A Short Story
  133. Dine Fining
  134. Innovation and the risks of big dreams
  135. 2 things I learned so far this year, number 3 will surprise you!

2023 136

  1. Uncertainty
  2. The Loneliest Man
  3. Two-Factor Authentication Blues
  4. My tuppence worth on smartphone [over] usage in modern society
  5. Cyanide and Razor Blades
  6. The Syntax Of Reality
  7. The Quake of '89
  8. Unity Day
  9. Flying is for fools
  10. The Internet is Boring
  11. To Love a Dove
  12. The Desert Gardens
  13. Treading the Boards
  14. The Art of Creative Cycling
  15. near misses and oddities
  16. Breach The Sky To Brave The Stars
  17. Risk
  18. Art As Vibes
  19. Color the Chair Red
  20. From Elysium
  21. Hugo and the Friend in Need
  22. Allez Allez Allez
  23. Belt of Flesh
  24. Wired for Compliance
  25. Vulturing
  26. Tarkovsky's Dream
  27. "The Web": A "Choose Your Own Adventure" Short Story
  28. Propaganda
  29. Wrestling with the 🅷EGO
  30. bookmark #746
  31. Live in Paris 28.05.1975 (Fripp and Eno, 2011)
  32. How to Write a Mirror Poem
  33. The Fear of Wasted Effort
  34. Lamenting Over Dreams Come True
  35. A Great Interruption Begins
  36. What I'm Learning From Being Mightily Ambitious
  37. When Rozza Rox Met Sir David Suchet
  38. Connections
  39. The Tentacles of Narcissus
  40. Dreams
  41. The Gift
  42. Miscommunication
  43. One Star
  44. Feast
  45. The Words Whispers
  46. How to Write a Reverse Poem
  47. No Gods, No Masters
  48. The Real Cost of Good Movies (And How To Pay For It)
  49. Radio: In Search of Lost Treasures
  50. I will find happiness...
  51. As Dust Settles
  52. Isolation
  53. The Day I Met Stan Lee
  54. 1.2 Billion seconds
  55. Another War
  56. Review of Deadly at Midnight, by Johnny Lane
  57. A deeply personal review of an electric blender
  58. A Rest Stop In A Long Valley
  59. The Three Body Problem of the Mind
  60. The Creator Economy Enters Stage 2
  61. You're gonna wanna see this
  62. Why Grandparents?
  63. The Terminal Tweet
  64. A Day at the Gym
  65. Fruit Fly
  66. Superstition
  67. My father's tiubeteikas
  68. After the Catastrophe
  69. The Shattered Princess
  70. Classification of articles that may be included in a newsletter
  71. Pulp, Pipe & Poetry
  72. Two Moons
  73. To Aginbite the Inwit: Or, Advice for Bloomsday
  74. Debt Troopers
  75. Me and Mr Granger
  76. Absurd: Notes on Comedic Flash Fiction
  77. My set on CBC's Laugh Out Loud
  78. Romance
  79. Before I Go
  80. A World of No White Paint
  81. Digital Chess Pieces to Save the World
  82. The Stone of Rán
  83. Drama
  84. A Message for Avaricum
  85. Greasy Goals & Five-Holes, or My First Season as a Fan of Hockey
  86. One Simple Trick for Living with Technology
  87. An Unexpected Guest
  88. What AI won't do for you
  89. The Wednesday Audio Episode 100 Celebration Post
  90. Rewriting Hemingway's "A Very Short Story" from Memory
  91. Death
  92. 10 photos: Noir Edition
  93. This Last Stand
  94. We must stop muting like this
  95. Soon
  96. Germination without rumination
  97. Synesthesia nervosa: A Parable
  98. Getting Un-Stuck from Your Past Self
  99. Tending the Weeds
  100. Domovoi- Prologue
  101. The Incidental and (Apparently) Entirely Accidental Inciting Incident
  102. The Answer Box
  103. Big Sur
  104. The Curlew’s Flight Call
  105. Trains
  106. Head Count
  107. George Harrison and the Struggle for Creative Freedom
  108. Inside The Box
  109. Tyrannical toilets and democratic baths
  110. The Plainview Robberies
  111. Why are you here?
  112. In Defence of the Mundane
  113. The longest day of the year
  114. The Pink Plastic Cone Crests Over the Hill
  115. The Hourglass of Life
  116. On the Art of Writing
  117. Dinosaurs
  118. Castle in the sky
  119. A Heart of Broken Bullets
  120. Life And Poetry Of James Clifford
  121. Good News
  122. The Futile Pursuit of a Functional Product; or, The Printer
  123. Crossed Wires
  124. The Captive Creator Code
  125. Stand for something
  126. The Literal and the Metaphor
  127. The Drunkard and The Dreamer
  128. Let’s the good guise, somma ship of virtu sink,
  129. The Haunted
  130. Beginnings
  131. Elbow Bend and Back Again, the Sisterhood of Impossible Limbs
  132. Want Vs Need- An Interview with Brady Putzke
  133. It’s Almost Time
  134. The Soaring Twenties Social Club Needs You!
  135. The Code
  136. The Soaring Twenties Marches On

2022 8

  1. On Work
  2. The Beach
  3. On Home
  4. On Procrastination
  5. On Nostalgia
  6. On Beauty
  7. Join The Soaring Twenties Social Club
  8. 🎉 The Soaring Twenties Social Club - One Year Anniversary! 🍾