Gwern — Fiction: Prose↗

Once long ago in the dawn of the World, when all tastes were more savory than now, all smells more pungent, all hues more brilliantly dazzling, when tigers smoked pipes—Panther was lying by a road in...

So. It came to pass that I should read a slim book within my library, pushed back by neglect.

Comics using the format of Ryan North’s Dinosaur Comics When I was a high-schooler, I greatly enjoyed Ryan North’s formalist Dinosaur Comics ; I was impressed by how much he could do within the...

The published work left by this novelist is easily listed.

Once upon a time, there was a city fair to look upon in a black forest. It was ruled by the strong and just Scion Prince, who was beloved by all the townsfolk.

On the last day, the aliens took the iron. They settled in a polar orbit, and slowly stripped the world of its mettle.

In the dusk, a tradesman dressed entirely in fuligin walked slowly through the lanes of that bright city. The many citizens gave him a berth, but not a wide one: death was a necessary craft too.

In the year 454 after the Hegira of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), the Blessed Calif Rashid-ad-Din, Lion of the Faithful, Commander of the Guardians of the Flock, Protector of the...

Gotham . Night. Fading stars peep through the smog. “On any ordinary summer night, the Tombs Gotham Waterworks would be silent as the broken stones of their namesake, save for the gurgle of water...

Me [when yoga instructor demonstrates the bhujapidasana asana ]: “Weird flex but OK.

S o, this is a sentence about lives. This is before the third sentence in this section but after the first one; it is therefore the second life sentence.

M. Trente has furnished a signal service to the scholarly world with his éclairage of one of our unsung research bodies, worthy of [translation error: the anonymous translator is a...