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"Between deaths, I dream. I emerge from a bloodstained tub and rise and drift and sway skyward with every warm breeze; a flawless photonic butterfly. With the planet fading behind me, I traverse the vacuum of space where I sip cosmic radiation, not for sustenance, but for gratification. I bathe within the nebulous plasma of stellar nurseries and ethereal tongues of inquisitive flames stretch to lap at my form with an unconstrained longing to give me pleasure. My consent is instantaneous and eternal. Every constellation turns to observe my ecstasy and smiles as the light that left me returns in a hot, joyous burst. The forgotten blue of the Earth I leave behind is a monochromatic vulgarity next to this omni-spectral kaleidoscope of the heavens I share only with God itself. I am home."

This is the first new story I’ve shared in five years, and it will also be the last piece I post on Unsettling Stories.

I hope you love it.

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Cixousian

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Machine Learning

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Therapist: Cthussy isn’t real. Cthussy can’t hurt you.

Cthussy:

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Weiß Amalgam. Oberammergau, 1972.

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Fellow old people for whom 9/11/2001 still feels like yesterday, hope you're doing okay.

(And everyone else, too.)

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Pansexuals when they hear about the panspermia hypothesis are like please don’t include us in your dumb cum joke.

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Italian cured meat producers used to make "bicetta" before they realized it wasn't properly inclusive, and as a result, the pancetta we know and love was born.

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Just in case it ever comes up, you can't copyright AI images. You can use them as aesthetic dressing for your stories but if anyone ever decides to take one and use it themselves, they're totally able to do so.

People steal my actually-copyrighted material all the time so I’m fully aware that anything I create will be taken by the lazy and/or worthless.

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An endless moment when you turn over in bed and feel compelled to open your eyes.

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Stages

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I’ll be back when Tumblr decides to fix this porn bot shitshow.

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When concessions are smaller than quanta, some hostile discussions may want a smart toothy box to aid in the talks: a special Vagina Détenta.

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Incomprehensible Wrongness

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Happy Fourth!

Fireworks emoji. Fireworks emoji. Fireworks emoji.

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It’s still June somewhere.

Happy Pride 🏳️‍🌈

Lesbians, may you have interest-free financing on Subarus.

Gays, may you have perpetual brunch.

Bisexuals, may you have a lifetime free from threesome jokes.

Transgenders, may you have clothing that fits precisely how you want it to.

Questionings, may you only have to make up your mind when/if you want to.

Queers, may you never have to conform.

Intersex, may you have medical professionals who know what the fuck they’re talking about.

Asexuals, may invitations to “Netflix and Chill” always be literal.

+s, may you be free from all negativity.

Love you guys. Every day of the year.

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Wormaid

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