Bob Lynn
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Feign the virtue thou dost seek, till it becometh thine own | https://linktr.ee/boblynn
The Light That Is Not Given In Culloden's ashes, a boy asks a showman what made him weep. Some things are not for the sheet. voxmeditantis.medium.com/the-light-th...
The Light That Is Not Given
In Culloden’s ashes, a boy asks a showman what made him weep. Some things are not for the sheet.
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A Voice Without Hands A king's pen silenced nine hundred years. In a Faroese cottage, an old woman cards the wool and keeps them. voxmeditantis.com/2026/08/19/a...
A Voice Without Hands
A king’s pen silenced nine hundred years. In a Faroese cottage, an old woman cards the wool and keeps them.
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The Gate of Three Things A boy with a theory. A widow with three truths. One gate. One afternoon. Eleven years of silence, broken. voxmeditantis.substack.com/p/the-gate-o...
The Gate of Three Things
What's a conspiracy theory you actually find believable?
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The Fog's Edge A prisoner draws maps for the enemy. The lines hold. The world beyond the vellum does not. voxmeditantis.medium.com/the-fogs-edg...
The Fog’s Edge
A prisoner draws maps for the enemy. The lines hold. The world beyond the vellum does not.
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The Mending A boy in a borrowed coat asks when manhood begins. A diver, mending rope, answers without looking up. voxmeditantis.com/2026/08/16/t...
The Mending
A boy in a borrowed coat asks when manhood begins. A diver, mending rope, answers without looking up.
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The Broth Before the Sun Eight strokes of rice. Three lanes to the red cloth. One dumpling, kept back. voxmeditantis.substack.com/p/the-broth-...
The Broth Before the Sun
Which is the best restaurant in your city?
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The Shape of What Was There Two women. One cellar. A painter who kept her distance. A sculptor who leans in. One word: closer. voxmeditantis.medium.com/the-shape-of...
The Shape of What Was There
Two women. One cellar. A painter who kept her distance. A sculptor who leans in. One word: closer.
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The Fountain's Testimony A qadi in Fez pours tea for a dead Spaniard and asks whether the sea was ever forgiven. voxmeditantis.com/2026/08/13/t...
The Fountain’s Testimony
A qadi in Fez pours tea for a dead Spaniard and asks whether the sea was ever forgiven.
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The Unowed Light Tangier, 1954. A soldier who cannot sleep asks the city's most invisible man whether people are worth believing in. voxmeditantis.substack.com/p/the-unowed...
The Unowed Light
What’s a moment when a stranger completely restored your faith in people?
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The Patience of Coral A girl on coral steps. A patched sail. A sea that will not say whether the watching was enough. voxmeditantis.medium.com/the-patience...
The Patience of Coral
A girl on coral steps. A patched sail. A sea that will not say whether the watching was enough.
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The Warm Bread at the Going of the Light A schoolgirl demands the best dish ever eaten. A muleteer offers warm bread, a step at evening, and someone gone. voxmeditantis.com/2026/08/10/t...
The Warm Bread at the Going of the Light
A schoolgirl demands the best dish ever eaten. A muleteer offers warm bread, a step at evening, and someone gone.
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The Judgement in the Cold In the long light of a dying shore, a father mends his net and asks what no psalm can teach. voxmeditantis.substack.com/p/the-judgem...
The Judgement in the Cold
What's a thing you wish schools actually taught?
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After Every One A hangman carves his dog in a London churchyard, 1658. After every hanging, she waits for him. voxmeditantis.medium.com/after-every-...
After Every One
A hangman carves his dog in a London churchyard, 1658. After every hanging, she waits for him.
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The Plain Account The dead cannot lie. The living will. She reads what is there. London, 1630. voxmeditantis.com/2026/08/07/t...
The Plain Account
The dead cannot lie. The living will. She reads what is there. London, 1630.
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The Rest Is Not Yours Two women. One allotment. One tasted for death. The other can't stop worrying. Between them, a bag of marrows. voxmeditantis.substack.com/p/the-rest-i...
The Rest Is Not Yours
What's something you used to worry about but don't anymore?
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The Ground Holds A gravedigger. The August clay. Five words, spoken once, and the afternoon holds. voxmeditantis.medium.com/the-ground-h...
The Ground Holds
A gravedigger. The August clay. Five words, spoken once, and the afternoon holds.
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Held in Store He painted every name. Never went. On the last day of peace, he tells a stranger why that was enough. voxmeditantis.com/2026/08/04/h...
Held in Store
He painted every name. Never went. On the last day of peace, he tells a stranger why that was enough.
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Visibility Good She cannot see what the dark holds. She lowers the gate anyway. Visibility good. voxmeditantis.substack.com/p/visibility...
Visibility Good
What is your favourite quote?
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A Licence to the Wind A taut, contained 1968 duel between a radical playwright and a former censor over freedom's crushing price. voxmeditantis.medium.com/a-licence-to...
A Licence to the Wind
A taut, contained 1968 duel between a radical playwright and a former censor over freedom’s crushing price.
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The Last Hands Upon the Stone Amidst molten lead, a 1933 Fleet Street typesetter reveals the dangerous, unseen mastery guarding the daily printed word. voxmeditantis.com/2026/08/01/t...
The Last Hands Upon the Stone
Amidst molten lead, a 1933 Fleet Street typesetter reveals the dangerous, unseen mastery guarding the daily printed word.
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The Scribe and the Shadow An atmospheric Victorian drama where a restless journalist and a weary puppeteer reveal the haunting power of witnessing. voxmeditantis.substack.com/p/the-scribe...
The Scribe and the Shadow
What is the fictional character you relate to the most?
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The Sum of Indifferent Things An unheralded scorer records the 1973 Women’s Cricket World Cup, proving that meaning is never fated, only meticulously forged. voxmeditantis.medium.com/the-sum-of-i...
The Sum of Indifferent Things
An unheralded scorer records the 1973 Women’s Cricket World Cup, proving that meaning is never fated, only meticulously forged.
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Between Stations Trapped on a stalled Tube train, an aspirational stylist and a death cleaner dissect curated lives and raw mortality. voxmeditantis.com/2026/07/29/b...
Between Stations
Trapped on a stalled Tube train, an aspirational stylist and a death cleaner dissect curated lives and raw mortality.
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I'll Be Seeing You As Partition fractures Lahore, a railway dispatcher faces exile, carrying his vanishing homeland within a single wartime lyric. voxmeditantis.substack.com/p/ill-be-see... #HistoricalFiction #ShortStory #IndianPartition #History #LiteraryFiction
I'll Be Seeing You
What's a song lyric that has stuck with you forever?
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