Still asleep? Madness mingles with dreams in the continuation of Awake/Asleep.

This year began with the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro by the USA. This development in global politics not only demonstrates the US government’s colonial ambitions but reveals the hypocrisy of the West.

"There's no need to concern myself with anything existing outside my field of vision. [...] I could lie like this forever."

Ruminations on Helen of Troy.

A personal and poetic take on the Tower of Babel.

"Fragrance(s)" captures the fleeting impressions and ephemeral feelings of a summer's day.

On a cold day in April, Adib, an immigrant in Germany, wonders where life has fledWhere the Wood Anemones Grow by Merle Emrich (@merlu.em) Issue: November 2025 On a cold day in April, Adib, an immigrant in Germany, wonders where life has fled and follows a trail of absence into the forest on the edge of town.

The mycelium in the world’s soil was withering. And now his research was this: registering all the decay, chronicling the death of entire ecological civilizations.

“Very rarely can the author of a story insert himself in one, for they can neither be participants nor observers; their roles are predefined and predestined as with all works of fiction.”

Is the universe coming full circle Finding itself, reflecting itself 

Rays of sunshine, when you look again. A poem about second glances and falling in love.

As the coral reefs fall, climate change reaches its first catastrophic tipping point.

Anatoly encounters another episode of horror before coming across the shipment...