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		<title>Mirror World</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>What if the laws of physics worked against you—but somehow, nobody got hurt? Mirror World is a place where everyone is left-handed, distances lie to your face, and the mathematics of collision screams for carnage that never comes. Oh, and the portals? Entirely transparent. Appear silver. Don't think about it too hard.</p>
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		<title>Murder, Mops, and Morsels: The Absurd Life of Junta Akiliwombo</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Ex-con Junta Akiliwombo's life is a darkly comedic blend of cookie obsession, a trusting wife, weird pets, and CIA mind-control experiments.</p>
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		<title>Travel Tips for Visiting Aira</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Travel guide to Lovecraft's Aira: a city of artistic beauty that probably doesn't exist, but you'll waste decades searching anyway. Pack light, dream heavy.</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://derekaudette.com/travel-tips-for-visiting-aira/">Travel Tips for Visiting Aira</a> appeared first on <a href="https://derekaudette.com">Audette-Art</a>.</p>
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		<title>Travel Tips for Visiting Carcosa</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Derek]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>A jagged, surreal travel guide warns that in Carcosa you’ll lose reflections, memories, time, and maybe yourself—yet still be expected to tip.</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://derekaudette.com/travel-tips-for-visiting-carcosa/">Travel Tips for Visiting Carcosa</a> appeared first on <a href="https://derekaudette.com">Audette-Art</a>.</p>
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		<title>The Ministry of Mysteries</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The Death of Wonder There is a smell here in my apartment that defies classification: scorched coffee, the metallic tang of despair, the faint ozone of the electrical hum of things long dead but still pretending to be alive, and something else. Something ineffable, as if the air itself remembers forgotten prayers once faithfully and regularly recited to forgotten gods within these rooms. I sit crooked-backed in my chair, one leg wobbling like a drunk acrobat rehearsing for an invisible [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://derekaudette.com/the-ministry-of-mysteries/">The Ministry of Mysteries</a> appeared first on <a href="https://derekaudette.com">Audette-Art</a>.</p>
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		<title>Eliphas Plunk &#8211; The Inconvenience of Being Mildly Alive</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Derek]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2025 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>(A Tragedy in the Key of Bourbon Minor) There are bureaucratic errors that get corrected, and then there are people like Eliphas Plunk — clerical oddities of existence on which somebody, somewhere, stamped approved out of blind fatigue. He was the human equivalent of a form filed in triplicate and lost in the mail; a man who arrived at life without a manual and kept insisting the missing pages were art. He looked like a person who had once been [&#8230;]</p>
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