Always, Julian fidgets with the little brass die in his palm…he rolls it between fingers like a clumsy prayer before coffee or a murder.
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An Alphabet Story XII
Seat Twelve: He sits where the law watches, and the law sits under him.
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September 24, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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Alex Mateo had his NYU MFA warm in his backpack like a newly minted excuse, the campus still smelling of rain and cheap coffee from January 2025, and a small brass hotel key stamped A-13…the Don's first, impossible gift…sat cool in the notebook he...
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An Alphabet Story X
Ink for the Don
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September 18, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Companions on the truck called him Mateo by day and the city’s janitor by night, not knowing he unspooled other things in the dark…old grudges and a small, stubborn roster of promises.
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An Alphabet Story XI
Last Sweep: A city’s sanitation worker becomes its only line between order and annihilation
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September 20, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Beside her, Nyoman still slept, his breath a faint, rhythmic whisper against the pillow, a sound as familiar to Putu as the distant chant from the village...
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An Alphabet Story VIII
The Taste of Tempeh and Memory
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September 20, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Being orphaned at nine, raised on the orphanage horn’s single morning call and the steady slap of punch mitts, he is now twenty-five and undefeated…twelve KOs, a spine of bragging tape wrapped around his left knuckle...
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An Alphabet Story XIII
Last Round at Mile One— Twelve straight KOs and one fight that will decide everything.
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September 28, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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