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Let’s Have Some Cheese Close Enough to Belong, Far Enough to Forget Jun 1, 2026 None of Us Are The Hunger to Remain Apart May 31, 2026 The Cost Two Kinds of Price May 29, 2026 Collateral A Turn Too Early Apr 28, 2026 The Best Ideas Come When You Let Go Default Mode Network and the Art of Not Thinking Mar 8, 2026 The Empathy Paradox Outside Every Story but Our Own Mar 4, 2026 It Is Either from Love or Fear Fear Wears Love’s Face—and Speaks Its Language Mar 1, 2026 Why Do Unfinished Things Haunt Us? The Zeigarnik–Lacan Trap We All Fall Into Feb 25, 2026
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Written in Ink The Unwritten Year Jun 4, 2026 Thinking Is for After The Cracked Plate Jun 11, 2026 It Will Be The Twenty-Three Kilos Jun 12, 2026
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On Lying Not Being Caught Carries Its Own Sentence. Mar 12, 2026 On Perceiving Misperception Is a Corridor Whose Architect Burned the Blueprint. Mar 14, 2026 On Looking A Room Full of Directors and No Audience. Mar 22, 2026 On Forgiveness Cruelty Made Architectural. Mar 29, 2026 On Keeping The Corridor Narrows in Adversity. Apr 2, 2026 On Longing Lighter. Smaller. Younger. Apr 2, 2026 On Silence I Forgot I Had a Cat. Apr 2, 2026
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Şafak’s Arc
The Poise They Must Know What They’re Doing Apr 13, 2026 The Joy The Summer of Superman and Straight A’s Apr 13, 2026 The Anxiety The Road to Nowhere Apr 13, 2026 The Cove A Command I No Longer Knew How to Give Apr 22, 2026 Handled Fractions of a Millimeter Apr 23, 2026
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Three stories from a corner that never emptied.

  • A dark wooden desk by a rain-streaked window at night. On it: a lit lamp, a stack of books, dried flowers, pens in a cup, a tablet in a black case, an opened envelope with a letter half out of it, a closed green notebook, and a cup of coffee. Through the window, a wet street at dusk with tram wires, a passing tram, and blurred lights. Written in Ink The Unwritten Year Jun 4, 2026 In Bologna her mother handed her the tablet across the kitchen table, in a white box with the lid still creased. The tomato sauce moved in folds on the stove and the...
  • A golden hour coastal scene. In the foreground, a rustic wooden table, chair, and a weathered boat rest on a sandy shore. On the left, old whitewashed buildings line the water's edge, while a path lined with tall, dark trees leads the eye across a calm expanse of water toward a modern city skyline with tall skyscrapers in the distance. Thinking Is for After The Cracked Plate Jun 11, 2026 Shadows stretch across the walls. Her mother’s plates form stacks on the table. Newspapers rest beside them. Crates cover the floorboards.Mara spreads a newspaper flat. She lifts a plate from the stack...
  • A sunlit café interior just after rain. Two women in light coats sit at a small wooden table with two cups and glasses of water; a dark suitcase with a paper tag stands beside one chair. At the window table, three older men lean over an open newspaper. Behind the counter, shelves of glasses and an espresso machine. Through the tall windows, wet pavement and trees in bright light. It Will Be The Twenty-Three Kilos Jun 12, 2026 Rain runs down the café window. The three men sit at the table by the window. A newspaper lies open between them. The street door opens. Two women come in under one...

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