July 2025
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Selinus: The Cenotaph Above the Abyss (part 1)
Dust of Time Entrance to the Labyrinth You approach the sea, but it does not greet you. It breathes — raggedly, heavily,…
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Heracles, Who Tired of Eternity
Artifact of Inevitability A Glance Through Glass You approach the display, and he’s already there. A weary Heracles, carved from marble in…
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Tantuni: The Beef That Did More With Its Life Than You
The Taste of Decay Food Chains of Empires One day, meat decided it didn’t want to be stew anymore. It escaped the…
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Elaiussa Sebaste: The Temple That Forgot Its God (part 5)
Dust of Ages Entry into Forgetting You walk not by path, but by intuition. Behind you — the town. Underfoot — dust.…
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Trump Kaya: The Tax on Reality
Ravings at the Edge of Time Versions of the Nonexistent He rose. First — the forehead shifted. Stone waves, reminiscent of a…
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Bronze Lucius Verus: The Metal That Remembers the Emperor
Artifact of Inevitability Through the Glass You stand before him — motionless. And yet, it feels like he’s breathing. Like he’s about…
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Elaiussa Sebaste: The Veins Where Water Still Flows (part 4)
Dust of Ages Entry into the Circuit You’re driving along the D400 highway. Everything looks normal—pavement, signs, the shadows of trees. But…
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Hannibal in the Eastern Shadow: Exporting Pain to Asia Minor
Dead Men with Ideas Name in Stone Hannibal Barca — the man who haunted Rome’s nightmares. He was their virus, their glitch,…
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Baklava: A Layered Empire and the Syrup of Eternal War
Taste of Decay Food Chains of Empires Baklava isn’t a dessert. It’s an imperial flashback, caramelized on both sides. Every crushed nut…
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The Street That No Longer Lives: Lemons of Eternity and the Honey of the Dead.
Elaiussa Sebaste (part 3). Dust of Ages (of Honey) At first, you don’t understand where you’ve ended up. The asphalt is fine.…
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Ashes over Eurymedont: Sea Battle near Aspendos
Scars of History Ignition Point At the river’s mouth, where waves drown the screams of the dying, in 190 BCE the world…
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Apollo: The Last Ray Across the Rift
Abandoned Pantheons Ash Over the Altar You stand among the ruins — a place where once they called to the light. Now…
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