The Memory Merchants
Archive Wars · A novel
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No Exceptions
Horrific Scribes · Special Exhibit Five: “We shouldn’t be here”
A DMV annex that appears only during blackouts, a form that cannot be withdrawn, and a man discovering which side of the counter he has been standing on for years.
“This story makes [Brunell] a worthy heir [to Kafka], but it has more of an emotional center than Kafka’s work and has multiple levels of pathos to go along with its intellectual delights.”
Raymond Brunell · Upper Peninsula of Michigan
Stories that blur the line between what we remember and what we invent.
A prose poet of the chronic-illness, neurodivergent body, writing inherited-document forms — ledgers, field notes, marginalia — from inside and outside the machine. The abiding question underneath all of it: who owns the record of what happened?
Subtropics/The Drift/A Public Space
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