Vera Herself | Stories from Istanbul
Vera, Wolf, Hummingbird Hatchling, Brian.hadfield, John HutchinsVera Herself is a literary travel and culture publication from Istanbul, exploring bookstores, poetry, places, and the stories that make us feel at home in the world.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Daily |
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| Issues | 150 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 9 days ago |
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“Those filled out pages, our stalwart faces, the proof of journeys done.”
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you be...
“Forgiving is a blessing, embrace it.”
Whenever I find myself in a place where I feel I have been treated unfairly, which, in my 28 years on this planet, I believe has happened only a couple of times, I always return to Hitchcock’s magical words. Somehow, they calm me down and h...
Caffeinated, but make it Turkish
- why I’ll never stop taking turkish coffee seriously
“When in doubt, trust the Turkish coffee.” - Vera, 2026.
“I step out of the hard place and join the dance.”
Do you think feeling safe means the absence of danger?
Do you think feeling safe means the absence of danger? Can safety also be a kind of confinement?
Becoming a Substack Bestseller in Catstantinople
Dear friends,
This post is free for everyone because it is apparently sponsored by myself since I have just become a Substack Bestseller right after my first anniversary on Substack.
I promised you I’d write a post to celebrate and tell...
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Istanbullu by heart • Storyteller by choice • Co-founder of EWA Studio \ud83d\udce9 [email protected]
I am a Witch, a retired Technomage, a Socialist, an Anti-Capitalist, the father of twins, Swing dancer, poet, writer, comic art lover, Groucho-Marxist, and an uprooted New Yorker. Merry Meet!
Practicing artist and poet--you will see my style shifting and changing as I find my voice--and my imaginary animals are evolving, too! My posts so far are open to everyone, but I greatly appreciate contributions, comments and restacks.
A perpetual seeker and sometime finder. A former teacher, bartender, banker, and technologist. Guided by humor, driven by desire, and a lover of life.
Mostly at sea
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