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Curtis McHale

Binary Bias, Cancel Culture, and the Death of Nuance
We like easy answers. Is it good or is it bad? Will I get cancelled for a view, or is it the one that helps me conform to society at large? If you've got kids, telling them yes or no is far easier that trying to give them a nuanced answer appropriate to their age level.

We do this because our brains want to short circuit complexity, whi
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Timbers Army Gorge Corps

If these last two are flipped, then it’s a better reference to song lyrics:
“She asked me to stay and she told me to sit anywhere. So I looked around and I noticed there wasn't a chair”
The notable lack of one chakra could also not be for the reader but instead might intimate a lack of balance and help explain each other characters’ clear struggles.
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Timbers Army Gorge Corps

Just finished Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami.
I have a theory, but can’t quite make it work. So, I’m hoping you all in #BookStadon #bookclub #books can help me out.
The theory: each of the main characters represents a chakra.
Crown: Naoko
Third Eye: Reiko
Throat: Wantanabe
Heart: Midori
Solar Plexus: Unsure, the reader, maybe
Sacral: Nagasawa
Root: Stormtrooper, maybe.
Is this something?
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Caitlin Waddick

Ursula Zia‘s chapbook, Murmur Hours, is available from Bottlecap Press.

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InstagramBottlecap Press on Instagram: "Ursula Zia's chapbook, Murmur Hours, is available from Bottlecap Press! Murmur Hours meditates on surface commotions that occur when a ‘woman’ perceives gaps in an interior world. The poems consider how a body can be a prophet alongside the arbitrary circumstances that crystallize the corporeal experience. These murmurations center around a character shaken between memories and the present moment, casting ripples upon the membrane of corporeal belonging. We are more than our physical body. This is a call against apathy. Through antinarrative, Murmur Hours’outlines an urgency to empty every cage as a step to achieve an inner peace. The eleven poems were originally written on a typewriter as a means to uncover the source of a deep disquieting restlessness. Once the author came out as non-binary, it all made sense. Murmur Hours considers a personal relationship to freedom of mobility. Not just as an accessibility to travel as one pleases, but as the freedom to access an ancestral memory and to interact with a social landscape and personal relationships associated with past trauma. The narrator questions their ability to reflect as they live in an increasingly unstable world. At times perceiving their existence as entrapment, they recognize a self split by a socially constructed binary. Wounded and healed by the collision of what is human and what is nature, these poems address the tumultuous process of creation and destruction through observations of interiority and externality. The colliding shards of gender and the perceived body create a fluctuating interiority that passes between memory, and the present. Upon realizing the fragility of the body-vessel, items fall off shelves, prayers are cast to mechanical angels, barbed wire is bent, we consider spontaneous combustion and inevitably decide to eat god. @pretend_im_the_dentist #shortstory #bottlecappress #shortstories #fiction #prose #amwriting #writing #chapbook #chapbooks #bookstagram #books #newbooks #bookclub #book #writer #microfiction #spilledink #booklover #bookworm #literature #fictionbooks"23 likes, 0 comments - bottlecappress on February 27, 2025: "Ursula Zia's chapbook, Murmur Hours, is available from Bottlecap Press! Murmur Hours meditates on surface commotions that occur when a ‘woman’ perceives gaps in an interior world. The poems consider how a body can be a prophet alongside the arbitrary circumstances that crystallize the corporeal experience. These murmurations center around a character shaken between memories and the present moment, casting ripples upon the membrane of corporeal belonging. We are more than our physical body. This is a call against apathy. Through antinarrative, Murmur Hours’outlines an urgency to empty every cage as a step to achieve an inner peace. The eleven poems were originally written on a typewriter as a means to uncover the source of a deep disquieting restlessness. Once the author came out as non-binary, it all made sense. Murmur Hours considers a personal relationship to freedom of mobility. Not just as an accessibility to travel as one pleases, but as the freedom to access an ancestral memory and to interact with a social landscape and personal relationships associated with past trauma. The narrator questions their ability to reflect as they live in an increasingly unstable world. At times perceiving their existence as entrapment, they recognize a self split by a socially constructed binary. Wounded and healed by the collision of what is human and what is nature, these poems address the tumultuous process of creation and destruction through observations of interiority and externality. The colliding shards of gender and the perceived body create a fluctuating interiority that passes between memory, and the present. Upon realizing the fragility of the body-vessel, items fall off shelves, prayers are cast to mechanical angels, barbed wire is bent, we consider spontaneous combustion and inevitably decide to eat god. @pretend_im_the_dentist #shortstory #bottlecappress #shortstories #fiction #prose #amwriting #writing #chapbook #chapbooks #bookstagram #books #newbooks #bookclub #book #writer #microfiction #spilledink #booklover #bookworm #literature #fictionbooks".
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Antonina_orthefallofrome
📚 “This is the terrible thing about a tragedy. It isn’t with you every minute. You forget it, and then you remember it again.”

👍Binged in a day. It has a strong start. The mystery was compelling and I enjoyed the trip to Austin. The last line was heart warming.

👎 This was not your typical HEA. The character development didn’t really make sense.
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Antonina_orthefallofrome
📚 “Love is always harder. Love means weathering blows for another’s sake and not counting them.”

👍A historical fiction set in France during the plague. It gave me Pillars of the Earth mixed with The Decameron vibes. I enjoyed following the MC’s on their journey and the character development. There were some consequences and some absolutely bonkers depictions of demons and Hell. The ending had some nice symmetry.

👎 The final boss fight was slightly anti climactic. I feel like after such a long journey, I needed more.
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Curtis McHale

When Status Slips and Rage Rises – The Roots of Polarization
The news slams into us every day—another hate crime, another community torn apart, another reminder that the center isn’t holding. As racism resurges and social trust frays, it's no wonder people seek refuge in polarised worldviews. In our second look at Think Again we'll examine the issues with society that I see leading
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