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Kirenya
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Multi-voice literary studio exploring pattern, rupture, and emergence through fiction, essays, hybrid works, and experiments.
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Just Read
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Just Read
Stills Study. A visual essay in twelve images, unfolding in three movements—Tension, Choice, Contact. An invisible teacher arrives with a red pen. Reading turns into performance. Then a hinge: permiss...
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February 4, 2026 at 6:48 PM
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Just Read
Makari | From Her Journal — The Day I Fired My Inner Professor. A storyteller opens a novel and meets an invisible teacher with a red pen. This is the moment reading shifts from performance back into...
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February 3, 2026 at 11:31 PM
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Studio chat is open.
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Studio chat is open.
A private space for us to converse and connect
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February 3, 2026 at 4:25 PM
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Inheritance
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Inheritance
A Stomari Song | Process & Drafts. A gentle folk song about leaving small provisions for your future self—coins, leaves, stitches, steady pins. A collaboration across time, built one ordinary gesture ...
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February 1, 2026 at 8:24 PM
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Inheritance Drawer
Stomari | Process & Drafts. A practice of leaving small provisions for the self who comes after—a coin, a leaf, a stitch. A poem about continuity, quiet accumulation, and the inheritance we build one ...
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February 1, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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The First Bond: Love Learned to Promise
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The First Bond: Love Learned to Promise
Makari | Process & Drafts | Origins: Marriage. At the edge of the world, two immortals pause at the threshold of permanence, and a vow takes on the pull of gravity. What is forever, if it begins again...
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February 1, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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The Bank of First Versions
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The Bank of First Versions
Stomari | Process & Drafts. A short Stomari story about leaving yourself supplies across time—so tomorrow-you inherits steadiness and ease.
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February 1, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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Studio Picks • No. 001
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Studio Picks • No. 001
Studio Picks is a rotating shelf of starting points across the Kirenya Studio—chosen to help you enter quickly, sample the range, and find a thread worth following.
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January 30, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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✦ Start Here
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Start Here
Start here. A clear map into Kirenya Studio—voices, rooms, and paths by interest (poems, reflections, stories, practices). Subscribe to stay close, or browse the archive at your own pace.
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January 30, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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The Weaving of Souls: Two Become One
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The Weaving of Souls: Two Become One
Makari | Process & Drafts | Origins: Marriage. In a winter that refuses to soften, two people speak a vow their world has not yet named—and learn what it means to return to it the next morning. What c...
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January 30, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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Three Sections, One Ceremony
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Three Sections, One Ceremony
Stomari | Process & Drafts. A lover sits close enough for breath to matter, and her hair falls like a river of ink—three to five feet of jet-black abundance gathered into three immense sections. As th...
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January 27, 2026 at 12:10 PM
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✧ Navigation Guide | Practice
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✧ Navigation Guide | Practice
Practice. A shop remembers an unpaid balance, an intersection keeps recording, and a practiced body keeps finding unauthorized ways across—sometimes without sight, sometimes above the street. Which do...
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January 20, 2026 at 4:22 PM
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Crossing Without Authorization
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Crossing Without Authorization
Stomari | Process & Drafts (Filed under: Practice). A familiar shop greets me warmly—then the unpaid balance returns, and the intersection outside turns strange when my sight counts down to zero. If p...
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January 20, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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Is Memory a Sense?
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Is Memory a Sense?
Makari | Process & Drafts (Filed under: Practice). I step off the curb and my vision disappears, so I cross using memory the way some people use sight—distance, timing, and the felt shape of a place. ...
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January 20, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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On the Matter of Repeated Vertical Infractions
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On the Matter of Repeated Vertical Infractions
Mabst | Process & Drafts (Filed under: Practice). A formal letter to the fictional Department of Aerial Conduct Violations explains the footage: gliding, altitude etiquette, and a request for a new ca...
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January 20, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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The Kettlebells at the Bed’s Edge, and the Green Exit
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The Kettlebells at the Bed’s Edge, and the Green Exit
Stomari. A lucid dream begins in a familiar bedroom and unfolds into shifting timelines, a humming transformation, and a communal ritual interrupted by the need for a quieter thread. When attention fr...
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January 19, 2026 at 1:42 AM
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Relaxation Protocol
Stomari. A series of dreams teach her, one layer at a time, what “relax” actually means—through a love triangle, a syncing interface, and a body that chooses sleep over lucidity. What does relaxation ...
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January 16, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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Relaxation Protocol
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Relaxation Protocol
Stomari. A series of dreams teach her, one layer at a time, what “relax” actually means—through a love triangle, a syncing interface, and a body that chooses sleep over lucidity. What does relaxation ...
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January 15, 2026 at 5:08 PM
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Red Text, Elapsed
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Red Text, Elapsed — prose poem

“Elapsed time keeps a steady pulse in the corner.”

What keeps asking for your attention while things are still syncing?
Red Text, Elapsed
A hard drive hums while a progress bar crawls forward and a long machine label flares red in only a few characters. What is asking to be reconciled when attention keeps returning to the red segment?
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January 12, 2026 at 9:46 PM
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Judgment as Ritual
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Judgment as Ritual
Mabst Shorts
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January 10, 2026 at 9:50 PM
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Codes for the Horizon
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Codes for the Horizon
Carousel Entry #2. A dream of urban planning turns into a vow: no matter how enclosed the world becomes, every life deserves a way to see far.
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January 10, 2026 at 9:48 PM
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Newsreel Stills Studies No. 01
Stills studies from Reels 07–11. A gallery of visual studies extracted from a fictional Newsreel. Twelve stills observe how authority installs itself, access is processed, and absence is recorded.
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January 5, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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Newsreel
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Another Newsreel is live.

Five developments.
Newsreel
Five Developments · Reel 11 · IA-2026.01.02. Five developments from a state-level record—where affordability becomes a financial instrument, care is budgeted, and accountability advances as infrastruc...
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January 2, 2026 at 8:12 PM
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The Cup Below the Well
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The Cup Below the Well
A Fragment by Stomari. A blue ceramic cup, the color of moonlit midnight, swirls with timeless water in a room beneath a well. When reaching feels like falling, what changes when the path becomes a de...
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January 2, 2026 at 8:09 PM
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Newsreel
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Another Newsreel is live.
Five developments.
Newsreel
Five Developments · Reel 10 · IA-2026.01.02. Five developments from a city resetting itself—where continuity is preserved through deletion, infrastructure teaches compliance, and policy updates ship w...
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January 2, 2026 at 6:30 PM