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Retrospective: Three Word Story

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How difficult will it be to construct some kind of relationship/narrative that ties them all together?

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  • Post author:January River
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  • Post published:August 4, 2026

Retrospective: Memories

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How fungible, how changeable, how curious is memory. How unreliable.

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  • Post author:January River
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  • Post published:July 28, 2026

Retrospective: Philosophy and Meaning

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Does the color pink actually exist? Did you ever just look at your hand and think, whoa?

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  • Post author:January River
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  • Post published:July 21, 2026

Retrospective: Childhood

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The experience of having a kiddo has paid off in laughter and tears, and copious amounts of art.

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  • Post author:January River
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  • Post published:July 14, 2026

Retrospective: Ohhh I Get It

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I like stories where you have to make some inferences and think a little to understand what’s actually happening. If that’s your jam, here are three of mine.

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  • Post author:January River
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  • Post published:July 7, 2026

Retrospective: Metaphor

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Here are three poems that make use of metaphor to (cleverly?) disguise what it is that the speaker is talking about.

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  • Post author:January River
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  • Post published:June 30, 2026

Retrospective: Places

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This week, three poems about places in time, and space, and memory.

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  • Post author:January River
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  • Post published:June 23, 2026

Retrospective: Slightly Creepy

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This week, some slightly creepy stories from the back catalog.

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  • Post author:January River
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  • Post published:June 16, 2026

Commentary: Summer School

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January River is taking a vacation! Except, not!

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  • Post author:January River
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  • Post published:June 9, 2026

tourism

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Where did / that / feather / come from

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  • Post author:January River
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  • Post published:June 2, 2026
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