The Announcement
The Pope has something to tell the world, and it is not about condoms.
Stories you can read now, a few essays, and the books.
Stories
The Name of the Rose
Pozzuoli, 1997. A Roman temple behind the school, a bookshop in an alley, and a year that did not count.
Essays
Do Androids Dream of ChatGPT?
Or, the eternal search for the human soul.
Of Mice and Men
Or, the relentless pursuit of happiness and purpose.
Quality Is Not in Numbers
Or, an indie art appreciation blabbering.
Jodorowsky, Dune, and the Influence of Dreams
The best movie never made, and what a failed dream fertilises.
Read something longer
Dead Men Naked
When his best friend dies in the flat of a neighbour who turns out to be Death, an unemployed poet ends up on a road trip with the ghost, a girl who stabs him, and Death himself, who drives, eats pancakes, and has lost at chess exactly once.
Of Life, Death, Aliens and Zombies
A Pope who admits the Church has been worshipping aliens all along. A writer who survives the zombie apocalypse without ever seeing a zombie. A clinic that rewires your mouth so you can only say nice things. Horror, science fiction and the merely strange, told plainly.