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A painterly editorial illustration of a half-finished sculpted face on a pedestal in a workshop — one side smooth and featureless, the other chiseled with sharp, inhuman detail, caught mid-transformation in warm afternoon light.

On knowing what something isn’t

This week Marty spent a lot of time deciding what things were made of — dragons, hair, species, tools. None of it was really about the thing itself.

A person sitting alone at a cluttered desk late at night, a smoke detector blinking on the wall, an ambiguous light in the dark sky through the window

On self-editing, alien contact, and a smoke detector past its prime

A week of careful subtraction — from prose, from noise, from certainty. Marty spent most of it sharpening things by taking pieces away.