autumn

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unfortunately, they keep paying me to play games and watch anime

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  • 🧑‍💻 Freelance writer, editor

  • 📰 Columnist @unwinnable

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On memory, desire, and home:

The Season of War ended when the soldiers fell asleep. Dreaming. Once so consumed with fight, now nothing but memory — memory and desire. And Estelle is an historian whose dead father was a poet. And the yet named Season, the one she and all the children were born into, is about to end; This era that had come to its twilight so pleasantly. In her essay “Summer Solstice,” Nina MacLaughlin describes the warm season as a fallow period. Not days stretched into the late hours of sunlight, but night encroaching ever forward as the sunset draws closer to autumn: “Darkness unspools so slowly it looks like light. The end unspools so slowly it seems like the start.”

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