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Supernova

We were driving through Old Hickory toward I-65 when the storm came in from outside of the city limits.

Storms in Tennessee are humbling. The hills darken and take on the ominous weight of uncertainty. The sky sinks. Lightning strikes at d...

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37,000 Feet High

Twenty minutes to landing in Nashville, I watched the sun melt and slip beneath the clouds. Wisps of white nothingness rose from them like incense smoke or steam off a pot of coffee, snaking and twisting until they dissipated. I was pressed...

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Deleting Kisses

July 13, 2026. 8:35 p.m.

The South in July is heavy with wet heat and pressure, not a violent pressure but a hydraulic kind, fueled by rain, salt, mildew, and an infinitely stifling delay. Twisted and taut inside it, the only wind is man-...

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The Denim Essay

Across the universe and in what they call the heavens stretches a banner of red, white, and blue, once impossible, now fading in the daylight. The sun pierces through it, whipping and snaking back in on itself as the wind, a clean and despe...

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Leather Rots Too

In the two summer solstices that have passed over Miami during my absence, it seems that its painted facades have washed out with the blazing glare, the coastal salt, and the incalescent asphalt.

Today brings the longest day of the year an...

2 months ago
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