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Addison Zeller

5 months

I have a piece up today at the great @3ammagazine -- I hope you'll give it a read "Some memories come back only because I’m writing; I wouldn’t otherwise remember them. I have to write them down before I remember."

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

1 month

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

10 months

Unfortunately, upon reading your submission we fell asleep for fifty years; when we awoke the village was filled with strangers, we ourselves were sapless and infirm; we are therefore unable to accept it for our upcoming spring issue

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

3 months

Empaupered myself today

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

5 months

Acceptance from Slop Review

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

9 months

My politics in four people

Elvis Avdibegovic Bego

@CitizenBego

9 months

My politics in four people

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

28 days

My cat is deeply interested in water and glass. He has an obsession with the physics of optics. He has a poetic sensibility. He divines the source of the Double, a realm of number beyond our perception, hidden in the phenomena of mirrors. Heck of a cat if you ask me

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

1 year

César Aira: “Changing the subject is one of the most difficult arts to master, the key to almost all the others.”

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

11 months

Four favorites of 2023, excluding writers I know so I don't make them blush

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

9 months

A winter evening in 1331, from Kenkō’s Essays in Idleness

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

6 months

Anna Kavan: “A short story is like a small room in which is concentrated a brilliant light.”

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

1 month

University presses, man. It took me a year and a half to learn that one of the books I translated was awarded third place in a translation prize…and only because I looked it up

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

7 months

Resubmitted to Threepenny because I hadn't got a confirmation letter--and boy was that a mistake. Holy shit

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

6 months

The March issue of @PitheadChapel is up and I’ve got a story in it; hope you’ll give it a read and take a look at the other work in this excellent journal! “By then it was nine, ten years. He’d never been to Navy Pier...”

Navy Pier

Addison Zeller By then it was nine, ten years. He’d never been to Navy Pier. I went a few times with my parents, and much later with friends, different ones. We agreed to meet for lunch. His…

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

2 months

Cleaning out a prof’s office. Many forgotten poets, his contemporaries, in typed pamphlets, paper fragile, type fading, often unread. Reading now and then, they sound very much of their time, that of Vietnam, even when they imitate older, less dated work. They sound far away

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

27 days

There’s a journal out there that keeps following me, unfollowing me when I follow back, gets unfollowed when I notice, and then starts the whole cycle again. Hilarious but also what

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

8 months

Pleased as the living punch to see my story "Mouse Mouth" get a Best Small Fictions nom from the extremely cool @trampset alongside all these excellent writers

trampset

@trampset

8 months

Hey trampset! When you gonna post your nominations for @BestSmFictions ? NOW. THE ANSWER IS NOW. Congrats to @kylerseibel , Renee Chen, @AdamStraus29 , Max Schmidt Wheeler, & @amhcrane87 ❤️

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

4 months

I've started to be embarrassed by some of my published work, which I suppose means I'm making progress

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

4 months

Little micro of mine that appeared in the newsprint issue of @unstamaticmag last fall; hadn’t got round to sharing it more widely—

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

7 months

Imagined a life where I stopped submitting and just wrote quietly for myself… felt good

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

7 months

Had some great writing news too, though, which I don’t usually share, but hell… Two of the journals I love and respect the most, some of the very first to publish me, have accepted longer pieces that’ll show up in April and June and I couldn’t be happier

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

18 days

Always a painful experience: rereading a piece after it has been accepted

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

8 months

This year I went from a completely unknown scribbler to a writer read by as many as thirty entire people 🥹

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

5 months

Delighted to have a story at @NewWorldWriting —they were not making it up about moving fast; hope you’ll give it a read, it’s short and about moving home

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

9 months

Friend starting MFA program just asked me about conferences, grants, awards, workshops, retreats, writing groups…and I had to explain that I didn’t go to a program, have absolutely no clue about any of it, and will die a pauper, unshriven, wretched, my bones disdained by worms

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

7 months

Fixing the toilet tank and discovering I'm in Best Microfiction 2024. They call me Mr. Glamor, you know

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

7 months

Ever get an interesting sentence in a dream? Don't know how I'd use it, but today I woke up with "In the hollow line the moon appears"

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

8 months

Unfortunately your submission drove us from paradise; now we wander the death-haunted earth, sowing and reaping, living by the sweat of our brow, while the angel at our backs denies us forever the immortal womb of Eden. We are unable to accept it for our upcoming issue.

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

1 month

Library starting to come together

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

7 months

Simenon: “It is rare to encounter people who do not play a role, even when they are alone. Most men feel the need to watch themselves living, to listen to themselves speaking.”

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

7 months

Honestly kind of shaken by the 3Penny thing. They know their system doesn't work. They still tell you they'll confirm. If you inquire, you get yelled at. If you resubmit, you a get a vicious letter from the EIC. Fellow writers, comrades...no journal is worth that.

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

2 months

Little piece about bits of bones up today

don't submit!

@DontsubmitLit

2 months

CDLXXXI . @amhcrane87

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

2 months

New work at @MinorLits — with great thanks to them

minor literature[s]

@MinorLits

2 months

Old World, New World — Addison Zeller ( @amhcrane87 )

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

15 days

New fiction at @ricjournal — hope you’ll flip on over there to give it a look see

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

6 months

All my life I have owned this piece of soap, shaped like the Walrus of Through the Looking-Glass and dating (the box tells me) from 1978

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

2 months

A story for you. Just sit back and listen to this dead bishop for a while. Courtesy of the lovely @atmosphericlit and its benevolent editors

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

2 years

Joseph Cornell

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

4 months

If you’ll forgive my oversaturation, here’s one more story this month—and in one of my favorite publications, the always-excellent @ErgotPress Hope you’ll give it a look

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

10 months

So strange that when you lose someone you truly love, they at once feel infinitely distant and almost on the cusp of presence, as if you only need to get through one thing before you can see them again

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

1 month

Dialogue is the most artificial and decorative stuff--I like it, don't get me wrong--it's the most fantastical element in writing to have clear sentences pop out of human mouths when in fact when we actually do talk to someone it's mainly a lot of tenuous grunty gibberish

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

1 month

Micro up at @offbeatlit — if you guessed it was about sea cucumbers, congratulations, you were right. Hope you’ll give it a read!

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

6 months

Rejection letter but it’s just a vision of toppled statues in a vast wasteland

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

5 months

New piece up today at the excellent @propaguleco

Propagule Magazine

@propaguleco

5 months

NEW from Propagule Motes: "The Absent Friend", by @amhcrane87 Read now:

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

5 months

Always loved this section in Sir Thomas Browne’s “Observations on Grafting.” Just a lovely piece of music

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

7 months

I always feel like I've blundered when I veer too deeply into autobiographical territory. For me, one of the real pleasures of writing fiction is the ability to distort, erode, annihilate my memories, opinions, personality.

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

2 months

Also have a micro up at Cease, Cows today—it’s short, be delighted if you ran your eyeballs over it real quick

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

7 months

Nearly accepted a charming little piece for the journal I’ve started to help edit…only I just discovered it was published by four other journals since September!

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

7 months

Short piece up today on @EunoiaReview — “Elle was told he was a supreme artist and a very old man. That he ate mainly sweets with his mom dead…”

Eunoia Review

@EunoiaReview

7 months

Seen and Unseen

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

3 months

Something I notice about contemporary Anglophone novels I find dissatisfying (there are many) is a seemingly deliberate lack of atmosphere, which leaves them feeling flat and characterless. Style, a conveyor of atmosphere in itself, often appearing only in scattered wry remarks

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

10 months

realized that it has now been a year since I became a published writer and also since I wrote this story with a tiger-shaped ufo in it

3:AM Magazine

@3ammagazine

1 year

Three Stories

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

8 months

Li Po was the first poet I really cared about, while Tu Fu only spoke to me after my mid-twenties or so. Now I prefer Tu Fu, but I can't help missing the way Li Po felt so completely present for me when I was young; it's as though he moved on from me, too.

(un)justly (un)read

@unjustlyunread

8 months

(the) two types of poet (no wonder i like Tu Fu's poetry more)

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

6 months

Every so often I feel like I have to turn off everything literary so I can figure out what/how I really want to write

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

2 years

Yang Wanli, tr. Jonathan Chaves

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

5 months

Ghost story where little by little the pussy appears to be escaping from the bio

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

7 months

I am now in possession of a Hanuman set and therefore at last a true voluptuary

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

5 months

Dreamed I was very tall and made of branches and at night I could walk about and in the day I slept scattered through forests. All in all, not a terribly bad dream, if—I’d say—leaning a little toward the fabulist

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

7 months

Three short pieces up today, courtesy of the excellent @slicesofanxiety — “Daytime is nighttime for them, night is day, and I suppose that’s how they go on, doing what they did living...”

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

10 months

new piece up in the lovely @bodylit today: “I wanted to draw, not write … but that was impossible: my trees were shapeless blobs, my insects were necklaces with too many beads, my oceans, triangles impaling clouds that dripped snow or rain…”

B O D Y | Flash Fiction by Addison Zeller

Addison Zeller fiction appears in 3:AM, minor literature[s], Ligeia, ergot., trampset, Cincinnati Review, hex, unstamatic, Epiphany, and elsewhere.

www.bodyliterature.com

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

11 months

Adopted a kitty named Mercury, who now has to navigate my unruly book piles

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

3 months

Fabulous discovery in a yellowed Penguin edition of “The Wilder Shores of Love” by Lesley Blanch

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

9 months

Three pieces up today at Pere Ube; subjects: buffalo hunting, Matthew Brady, UFOs… They’re particular favorites of mine, so I hope you enjoy!

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

9 months

Delighted to be nominated for a piece you can read, or listen to me read, here:

miCRo: "When He Heard about the Y2K Bug" by Addison Zeller

Addison Zeller creates a portrait of a father who is both protective of his family and hungry for apocalypse.

www.cincinnatireview.com

Cincinnati Review

@CincinnReview

9 months

Award season continues, and we're proud to announce our nominations for Best Microfiction and Best Small Fictions, including @swellspoken , @clairepolders , @amhcrane87 , @_uyendang , and @joekap64 among others. Congratulations to all the nominees!

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

1 year

Moved to say that in addition to the consistently top quality work they publish, @ErgotPress , @LigeiaMag , and @MinorLits will always stand out for their gracious and meticulous editors, their kind and generous communities, and a support that stays tangible long after publication

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

7 months

Rick Amor, Shark in a Wave, 2002

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7 months

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

3 months

Once again writing a piece of fiction in which a horse does something weird

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

11 months

Four months later: We appreciate your interest in our cheeseburger. Unfortunately...

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

1 year

Had to say goodbye to her last night. Beautiful, crazy, wonderful cat. It was a joy and a gift to be her friend.

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

8 months

Piece up today at the beautiful @ooo_astrolabe — “The old dead and gone live in a block of apartments on South Beall. I wouldn’t have noticed if I hadn’t recognized one, an aunt of mine, checking her mail...”

Sunset Apartments • fiction from Addison Zeller

I wish I could tell you the dead and gone are younger now, healthier, or stronger, but my impression is that, if anything, they have grown older, smaller, and weaker.

www.astrolabe.ooo

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

1 year

I have a short piece up today on the never-sufficiently-praised @MinorLits : deep thanks to @TobiasvRyan an excellent writer, supportive editor, and all around good guy

The Advancement of Learning — Addison Zeller

Six hours a day we had lessons in the kitchen. History, Literature, Art, Geography, Music, Natural Sciences. Instead of Music for a year it was Mathematics, a subject we appreciated without underst…

minorliteratures.com

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

4 months

Got a story up today at @RevolutionJohnM — hope you’ll give it a read and follow that excellent publication

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

4 months

So grateful for every ancient octopus

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

3 months

One of my little stories, seemingly lost with the late lamented SEPIA, is back online thanks to the heroic souls at @BulbCultCo — give it a look!

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

1 year

I have a piece in the @CincinnReview MiCRo series today! Hope folks enjoy. I also recorded the story, which involves canned hams, so if either of those things appeal to you—hams in tin, the human voice—give it a listen!

miCRo: "When He Heard about the Y2K Bug" by Addison Zeller

Addison Zeller creates a portrait of a father who is both protective of his family and hungry for apocalypse.

www.cincinnatireview.com

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

10 months

Got a bunch new acceptances in Timber Stream Quarterly, Eel Flash, Fearful Delusion, Crackerbarrel Review, Wagon Load, So Long Attack Spaniel, and considerable other publications

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

10 months

If I ever have a son, think I’m gonna name him Pierre. Or The Ambiguities

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

9 months

Pater on Watteau: “He was always a seeker after something in the world, that is there in no satisfying measure, or not at all.”

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

11 months

I have a little story up at @sepiaorg this morning— “My parents are sick. I wheel them from window to window. They don’t want to sit by the same window… They’re never satisfied with the familiar. The familiar is precisely their ailment.”

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

4 months

Update on Mercury:

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

4 months

Really just takes getting up and looking at my phone for three seconds now for me to commence my daily rotations in a bottomless maelstrom of horror and loathing for our country and government

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

4 months

I really ought to be focusing on work but alas I have acquired a passion for reading about and staring at pictures of tenth century hogback tombstones. Just look at these sluggy bastards

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

9 months

Can’t think of too many painters I love more than Watteau tbh The man breathed late summer forest afternoons, even in his interiors

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@mcmansionhell

9 months

rococo architecture is fine but the art is a low point

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

9 months

Walser stopping me in my tracks

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

7 months

Wow, I just generated a few hundred words of prose with my generator, this pencil

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

2 years

Thanks to the wonderful @OlneyMagazine and @notreallyjcm for accepting my story!

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

6 months

Sometimes, in bed with a book, I'll start to drift off and read sentences, whole passages even, that in my state feel plausible, and certainly comprehensible, but when I snap awake they won't be there; often I'll miss them, too, as if they were a necessary dialectical component

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

1 year

Honestly still just about my favorite opening (Walser’s The Robber)

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

2 years

Yuan Mei, tr. J.P. Seaton

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

5 months

The cat didn’t go bananas but I found that eclipse pretty eerie, ghostly, etc., and if I was a decadent novelist of the 1890s I’d feel compelled to get very morbid and grandiose about it

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

4 months

The many books I have read that are now complete blanks in my memory, mere covers and blurbs sandwiched between books I recognize and drift through the instant I see their titles

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

10 months

from Borges, Book of Imaginary Beasts

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

4 months

Two qualities of early Irish and Welsh literature I’m particularly fond of: the deep love of repetition, and the tendency of freshly severed heads to offer ironic remarks or last-minute puns as they bounce through the grass

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

8 months

Oops. Guess we killed Threepenny

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

2 years

Joseph Cornell’s diary entry for 1959

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

10 months

New piece today at one of my faves, @hexliterary — “I figured out walking through walls. As in walking down them. As in they open into corridors and aren’t tight at all…” Deep thanks to @DanTheDadBodGod @_katemcintyre & Joe Aguilar!

I Figured Out Walking Through Walls by Addison Zeller

As in walking down them. As in they open into corridors and aren’t tight at all. You can’t stick a bed in them, but a couch? Definitely. There’s one at the rec center. I was walking through a wall,...

hexliterary.com

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

11 months

New piece in Issue 1 of @frwell_trans — check it out and give them a follow! “This is your new brother, said Mom. We adopted him…. He was an old kid, probably thirty: I was nine.”

New Brother

This is your new brother, said Mom. We adopted him. He needs help, we can help him. . . .

farewelltransmission.net

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

2 years

Clarice Beckett, Trams Passing

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Addison Zeller

@amhcrane87

1 year

I have a piece at the wonderful @trampset today. Deep thanks to @jedwardkruft for taking this! “I don’t remember how to spell her Norwegian name, but it means Mouse-Mouth, and I picture her as a low raincloud pushing through ferns, electric within.”

Mouse-Mouth

by Addison Zeller

trampset.org

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2 years

Shiwu (“Stonehouse”), tr. Red Pine

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