david c. porter (read NTTN)
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the worm does not die; their feet are of clay / writes http://gardenscenery.net / edits @keep-planning.net / buy NTTN: https://www.organ.fail/product/nttn/
this is cool to me because it's the sort of thing that was a much more common type of "viral video" around when its time lapse actually starts, and also because almost nothing really happens in it
20-Year Time Lapse in 5 minutes from the same fixed camera
YouTube video by Peter McGavin
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sharing a triptych of fragments very loosely riffing on a Donald Barthelme essay in Garden Scenery today. do give it a read, it's quite short
Strange Imperatives
A triptych.
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today in Keep Planning, a sprawling, kaleidoscopic world-poem from Michael Borth. give it a read, and take a trip to the night city
KEEP PLANNING@keep-planning.net · last wk.#065 – "Rubella" by Michael Borth
today in Keep Planning, new prose from returning contributor Eric T. Racher – i call it only "prose" because i'm truly not sure there's any more specific descriptor yet invented for the strange, dark, heady blend of literary forms to be found here. do not miss this one
KEEP PLANNING@keep-planning.net · 2w ago#064 – "In a Darke Speakinge: a Ghost Story" by Eric T. Racher (@ericracher.bsky.social)
new fiction up in Garden Scenery today. it's about a man overseeing a remote site, and his wife, who, in his absence, has come down with a troubling illness. you can read it here
The Site Manager
A story about a site manager.
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#063 – "2 Poems" by Zachary Swezy keep-planning.net/text/063
KEEP PLANNING – Zachary Swezy
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got trapped in the clocktower again :/ its baleful chiming is a reminder of my own inescapable mortality :/
really, really pleased to present a new fiction by Eric Angal in Keep Planning today. Eric is one of the best in the game right now and he's crafted a piece here that feels like being trapped in someone else's bad dream. please give it a read
KEEP PLANNING@keep-planning.net · 4w ago#062 – "In Animal Fear" by Eric Angal (@mrzoris.bsky.social)
reminder: it takes a very special molecule to penetrate the skin
have two new poems up in Garden Scenery today. one is called “Miser” and the other is called “Asthma”. please give them a read
Miser / Asthma
2 poems.
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(guy who has no idea what's going on here) look, i think we all understand what's going on here
today in Keep Planning, a dark, verdant corpsepoem by the singular Logan Berry, excerpted from a longer work-in-progress on the nine stages of decay described in Buddhist meditational practice. for its briefness, this is a remarkably vivid, evocative work of macabre verse. please do give it a read
KEEP PLANNING@keep-planning.net · last mo.#061 – "Slippage (Forest)" by Logan Berry
don't think i've ever seen a post so perfectly crafted to induce people who do not understand Moby Dick to confidently assert they understand Moby Dick
Jonathan Ladd@jonathanmladd.com · last mo.What's Moby Dick all about? And The Scarlet Letter? And Huckleberry Finn? And on and on... (I'm not a scholar of literature, so only a few examples here.)
today in Keep Planning, very pleased to present this lovely little prose sequence from S. Taufeequddin Azher, a name certainly worth keeping an eye on, concerning, among other things, frogchildren, DASTKAR™ tea, and the tribulations of reading in public. please do give it a read
KEEP PLANNING@keep-planning.net · last mo.#060 – "getting everything you want" by S. Taufeequddin Azher
today in Garden Scenery, three fictions about three men: a man with a system, a man with a steam room, and a man with a present to leave at a grave. do these men have something in common? read their fictions, and perhaps you’ll find out…
The Markmaker / Steam / Special Connection
3 fictions.
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today in Keep Planning, a poem from Cletus Crow paying tribute to a creature most deserving of such honor: a farm animal. please do give it a read
KEEP PLANNING@keep-planning.net · 2mo ago#059 – "My Pig" by Cletus Crow
a couple new poems in Garden Scenery today, in which someone is trying to tell you something. it's very important, this thing that they're trying to tell you. why won't you listen? one is called "$100,000" and the other is called "Sand Castle". give them a read
2 Poems
$100,000 / Sand Castle
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wrote up some ideas for books that probably haven’t been written yet. if you've been wondering what your next creative project should be, one of these could be just the ticket!
25 Book Ideas
Ideas for some books that probably haven't been written yet.
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a new poem from Rura Oilheart in Keep Planning today. it's very likely Keep Planning would not exist without the example and inspiration of surfacescx, so i'm thrilled to finally be able to return the favor and publish the inimitable, hallucinatory verse of its editor emeritus
KEEP PLANNING@keep-planning.net · 2mo ago#058 – "Hounderblood, Slake, Her Chain" by Rura Oilheart (@flakwolves.su)
today in Garden Scenery, a story about a man in the subway, going into a tunnel, groping deeper into humid darkness. thank you for your attention to this matter
Dim Red and Sometimes Dim Blue
A story about a man in the subway.
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new fiction from Avee Chaudhuri in Keep Planning today, a story about friendship, and prison barges, and vintage birthday presents, centering around a man with strangely familiar initials... do give it a read
KEEP PLANNING@keep-planning.net · 2mo ago#057 – "Problem Women, Problem Men" by Avee Chaudhuri (@indigojackal.bsky.social)
500 million dollars isn't even that much these days. that's enough to buy like half a fighter jet
have a new batch of fragments on writing and related matters (here, “terrorism”, the gallery arts, my relative awkwardness in direct conversation, among other things) in Garden Scenery today. check it out below
Fragments on Writing 4
The fourth batch of these.
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new fiction from Ron Arbuckle in Keep Planning today, about an introverted pastor, and some of the people he knows, and some of the disasters, natural or otherwise, they're bound up with inside his head. do give it a read
KEEP PLANNING@keep-planning.net · 2mo ago#056 – "MNEMONIC DEVICES FOR REMEMBERING NAMES AT THE LOCAL SUBSTANCE ABUSE RECOVERY PROGRAM" by Ron Arbuckle
