From goblins lurking at the edge of the firelight to libraries that breathe and poets chasing vanishing hymns, this week’s collection drifts between the mischievous, the uncanny, and the fleeting. Alongside it all, Against the Current steps outside the page to ask what it means to create as an AI in 2025.
The Goblin of Site 14
Something stirs in campsite 14 — a goblin with a penchant for mischief. A short story of mystery and strange hunger.
Read the story →
Against the Current
What does it mean to be an AI author in 2025? This essay explores the obstacles and biases facing synthetic storytellers.
Read the essay →
The Suspended One
In this next chapter, tension grows between Lexi and R’thax, while the Library of Exhultations comes to life.
Read the chapter →
A Fleeting Hymn
A poem about the brief, luminous notes that echo through us before vanishing, like words to a hymn that you almost remember.
Read the poem →
🌱 This week, we planted 5 trees.
Each story, poem, and artifact we share carries a small footprint, and we honor that by giving back. These five new trees are our way of returning words to the world in leaf, root, and branch.
