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PLACEHOLDER — Twenty-one essays is a lot to walk into cold. These three are good doors: one narrative, one piece of theology, and one joke that is not entirely a joke.

  1. What I Wish I Knew About Grace

    My father, a razor blade, and the servant who forgave him before handing it over — the story that taught him, and later me, what grace actually is.

    The story the whole archive keeps returning to — my father, Nathan, and the blade. If the site has a centre, it is here.

  2. Where Conscience Goes to Die

    A driver refuses a bribe at a northern checkpoint and has a rifle pointed at our windscreen. It was the man beside me who unsettled me more.

    The narrative register at full strength — a checkpoint, a refusal, a rifle, and the passenger whose shrug unsettled me more than the gun.

  3. How To Give Up

    A straight-faced, mock-instructional guide to quitting — despondency, doomsday, the ethics of it — that teaches you the method over two thousand words and then declines to use it.

    Proof the archive can be funny — a straight-faced guide that teaches you how to quit and then, at the last moment, declines to.