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ＰＡＵＬＫ | ＷＡＫＥＩＳＬＡＮＤ @wakeisland.bsky.social · 8d

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Wake Island: Exploring the Imagery, Sickness, and Energy of 2025

September Edition (Written by Paul K and David Leo Rice)

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ＰＡＵＬＫ | ＷＡＫＥＩＳＬＡＮＤ @wakeisland.bsky.social · 7d

The rage bait has been taken, swallowed, digested. Rage is the sacrament of a church that’s lost its tether to the divine, a cleansing ritual that no longer cleanses but leads only to more rage, the ceaseless desire for the next hit.

ＰＡＵＬＫ | ＷＡＫＥＩＳＬＡＮＤ @wakeisland.bsky.social · 8d

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Wake Island: Exploring the Imagery, Sickness, and Energy of 2025

September Edition (Written by Paul K and David Leo Rice)

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ＰＡＵＬＫ | ＷＡＫＥＩＳＬＡＮＤ @wakeisland.bsky.social · 8d

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Wake Island: Exploring the Imagery, Sickness, and Energy of 2025

September Edition (Written by Paul K and David Leo Rice)

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Joe bielecki @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · 22d

The newest Episode of Writing The Rapids is out now! I talked to @raviddice.bsky.social about his new book The Squimbop Condition ( @1111press.bsky.social ), and all that wild ride of a book entails. Take a listen.

Rejoinder: The Squimbop Condition with David Leo Rice

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ＰＡＵＬＫ | ＷＡＫＥＩＳＬＡＮＤ @wakeisland.bsky.social · 27d

a lot of demonic energy is surging out there today

ＰＡＵＬＫ | ＷＡＫＥＩＳＬＡＮＤ @wakeisland.bsky.social · Sep 2

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WAKE ISLAND (@wakeisland)

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ＰＡＵＬＫ | ＷＡＫＥＩＳＬＡＮＤ @wakeisland.bsky.social · Sep 1

If July was Post-Paranoia, August is the breakdown of appetite. The Ozempic Era. What do you do when the bloodlust you think you’re resisting, but secretly crave, spills over because you can’t stomach any more?

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Wake Island: Exploring the Imagery, Sickness, and Energy of 2025

August Edition

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ＰＡＵＬＫ | ＷＡＫＥＩＳＬＡＮＤ @wakeisland.bsky.social · Sep 1

If July was Post-Paranoia, August is the breakdown of appetite. The Ozempic Era. What do you do when the bloodlust you think you’re resisting, but secretly crave, spills over because you can’t stomach any more?

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Wake Island: Exploring the Imagery, Sickness, and Energy of 2025

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Southwest Review @southwestreview.bsky.social · Aug 4

Introducing THE SQUIMBOP CONDITION by the homie @raviddice.bsky.social 🔥

This collection includes stories previously published in SwR so we're collabing with @1111press.bsky.social

Pre-order the book and get our fall issue FREE 💥

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ＰＡＵＬＫ | ＷＡＫＥＩＳＬＡＮＤ @wakeisland.bsky.social · Aug 1

In the end,you can’t turn your head from the flood and be spared its damage. And even in doing so, you sense something is being withheld. Like an Escher drawing of a man staring at the back of his own head, looking away fuses with looking in, until you can’t separate walking away from walking toward

David Leo Rice @raviddice.bsky.social · Aug 1

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Wake Island: Exploring the Imagery, Sickness, and Energy of 2025

July Edition

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ＰＡＵＬＫ | ＷＡＫＥＩＳＬＡＮＤ @wakeisland.bsky.social · Aug 1

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ＰＡＵＬＫ | ＷＡＫＥＩＳＬＡＮＤ @wakeisland.bsky.social · Jul 3

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WAKE ISLAND on Substack

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ＰＡＵＬＫ | ＷＡＫＥＩＳＬＡＮＤ @wakeisland.bsky.social · Jul 1

If May was a month to regroup, then June is when shit hits the fan. The possible beginning of a world war lands on Friday the 13th, the same weekend as Father’s Day, my first as a daddy to my baby daughter.

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Wake Island: Exploring the Imagery, Sickness, and Energy of 2025

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ＰＡＵＬＫ | ＷＡＫＥＩＳＬＡＮＤ @wakeisland.bsky.social · Jun 20

Ocean Vuong is transgressive

ＰＡＵＬＫ | ＷＡＫＥＩＳＬＡＮＤ @wakeisland.bsky.social · Jun 15

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6/13/25

ＰＡＵＬＫ | ＷＡＫＥＩＳＬＡＮＤ @wakeisland.bsky.social · Jun 2

THE INVERTED TOWER

ＰＡＵＬＫ | ＷＡＫＥＩＳＬＡＮＤ @wakeisland.bsky.social · Jun 1

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Wake Island: Exploring the Imagery, Sickness, and Energy of 2025:

May Edition

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ＰＡＵＬＫ | ＷＡＫＥＩＳＬＡＮＤ @wakeisland.bsky.social · May 30

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Chris Santa Maria @chrissantamaria.bsky.social · May 15

"By far the most interesting and beautiful art book I've seen this year." -Paul Kwiatkowski aka Ghost Guessed aka @wakeisland.bsky.social

Chris Santa Maria @chrissantamaria.bsky.social · May 15

throwback to a project that i made these unique transfer drawings for in 2015

ScarJo
written by Christine Smallwood and Mark Sussman

It's an essay. A chapbook. An art project. A zine. A state of mind. A way of being. An untimely meditation on science fiction, stardom, and surface reading.