Please, Just Thomas



Catch-and-Release - Nicholas Caglianone

One fun thing about learning if flukes can communicate with one another is that they can't. Rather, they have the means to communicate, but they don't. [...] (PDF)


Hey Fascists: Conversations with an Unknowable Man - Nicholas Caglianone

Is he Hassan Hosseini Nayeh? Or is it Nayjeh? Or is it Ashkan Zare? In any case, he is a rabid email-sender; he is an outsider artist; he is a writer; he is a subversive thinker; he is a theorist. [...]


The Skinless Apes of Prehistory - Carolus T. Doran

Although counterintuitive at first, it is quite clear that there is no evolutionary incentive for comfort. In fact, a species may be perfectly biologically viable, by Darwin’s theory, despite being in constant physical (or even emotional) pain. [...]


Please, Just Thomas (Full Book, ZAstr Mode)

[...] The scene in that room was both objectively impressive and subjectively concerning. The wooden shelves for Dasha’s pottery remained, but the pottery itself was now pushed to the wall, guarded from the rest of the shelf by a glass barrier. The end of the shelf furthest from the wall was protected by wire mesh, and the space between the glass and the mesh was free to roam for the mice. [...]


Please, Just Thomas (Full Book, CRLS Mode)

[...] The mice ranged freely on all three levels of shelves. How did they get from the ground to the higher levels? Well, Thomas had built a complex network of elevators for vertical traversal and cable cars for horizontal traversal of the space. Yes, elevators and cable cars. [...]