Some rest on a sunlit rock, looking at the trail behind and beyond. Maybe write a poem or two, if only in your head. Take a picture.

We’re on the verge of a near year of life.

With luck, another year of progress.

Justin X. M. Corriss reflects on the top five stories of 2021!

I feel like Beautiful World, Where Are You is the friend who comes over with shots to comfort you. It is potent and cutting, an immaculate encapsulation of that sense of the world ending, of friendships ending, of standing at the edge of a new age and clinging to whatever is nearby and familiar to keep yourself feeling you.

Some opinions and insights into how I think of chapter names!

Listen to a Free Audiobook of “Plague: A Prologue,” written and read by Justin X. M. Corriss.

The benefits of writing by hand abound, even if my penmanship can’t quite keep up.

Justin X. M. Corriss offers a quick look at the thought process behind the evolution of Telgora’s capital city, Cobra’s Hood.

It’s the power of creation which makes me write earlier of the description of The French Dispatch as a love letter to journalism as only somewhat accurate. It’s a love letter to creativity.

Lessons in fear and in hope, in the environment and its resources, in the respect owed both to otherworldly cultures and familiar enemies, and in the power of stories themselves all swirl on the sands of Arrakis. Dune. Desert Planet. It’s Dune, an experience larger than any one life, planet, or story.