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Tales For Kind Souls
A collection of stories, poems, and diversions inspired by thinking of TFKS acronyms. Enjoy yourself. Take only what you need from it.
A hark back to a simpler time until one's ego & hubris jeopardizes the enterprise.
The story of two intertwined souls and their push/pull struggle until finally surrendering.
A poem about a free radical's journey to find love
Tired of "coloring inside the lines", this font dared to break the rules.
A union of opposites
An epic about one man's digestion. Still a work in progress...
The story of one person's struggle with Radical Candor
A poem of stoic optismism in the face of cataclysymic climate change
What happens when young forking lovers encounter a charming "other".
The software developers of the Voyager I probe included a self-mutating genetic algorithm to run during free cycles of its mission. After millenia of wandering in space, it finally encountered a sentient being. What happens next?
How love can shine a light on even the darkest spots.
What happens when a prized possession is let out of its packaging?
An in-depth analysis of 33 quotes from our most beloved actor & director of film & stage
The story of our most excellent actor's struggle to find connection
How Fourier found the fast way, lost it in a crate of Egyptian plates, and the hundred and fifty years it took the world to find it again.
A man who was right too early, which the world scores identically to being wrong. Wardenclyffe, the wireless grid, the patents he signed away, and the century it took for the rest of us to catch up.
Work in progress. Absolute zero as the one floor nature enforces — and the man who found it, then spent his authority insisting the earth was young and radio had no future.
Work in progress. The Japanese pioneers of getting a little better on purpose — Toyoda, Taguchi, Deming's loop coming home — and looking back as a discipline rather than a regret.
Work in progress. Constraint as engine rather than cage — why a form you cannot escape produces more than a blank page ever does, and where exactly the pressure stops helping and starts detonating.
Work in progress. Gravity as the one Titan — a cloud crushed until it catches, a standoff held for billions of years, and the war that ends with everything heavier than iron thrown out of the pit.
Work in progress. The Japanese blade is superb because the ore was terrible — folding was invented to fix bad iron, and the curve arrives unasked at the quench. Masamune, a rivalry that never happened, and a sword lost in 1945.
Work in progress. A man works out iteration in a hospital bed with his face in ruins; a pacifist counting wars finds that coastlines have no length; a mason carves the wrong spiral on a tomb. The monsters mathematics rejected turned out to be the shape of the world.
Interstitials. At the bottom of a very deep hole, figures from several epochs who each got flattened into a slogan are stuck with one another's company, and they have opinions about the stories you've been reading. No verdicts are available down here. First: the man who did something unforgivable to time meets the two gentlemen it belongs to.