Re-Capitation News Update

Green-suited doctor with a brain for a head, in a gold frame, touching the brain of a blue skeletal figure on black

Spine-tingling news! Is this doctor getting a Head of himself or does he need to go Back? Well, work progresses forward to the dream of being a disembodied brain in an A.I.-ndroid body! Nov. 17, 1997 : https://nationalpost.com/news/health/worlds-first-human-head-transplant-successfully-performed-on-a-corpse-scientists-say/ Oct.23, 2026 : https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3371900/chinas-head-transplant-advocate-ren-xiaoping-completes-12-hour-landmark-surgery-russia About the artist : Rome Dome says, “Get a backbone!”

Poetry : The Million Names of Azathoth

Swirling blue and pink painted face of Azathoth with radiating spikes on black, dated 11/8/26 Rome Dome

A series of Scifaiku from Romeo Esparrago. I. Before. Before the first light it was, and it hungered, blind: father, mother, maw. II. The Chains. Ultimatium : binds the Abyss. Still it dreams, and its dreams reach out. III. Hundun. Faceless scarlet sack, in China it wore no eyes. Bored open, it laughed. IV. Tiamat … Continue reading Poetry : The Million Names of Azathoth →

Poetry : Dawn of the Dead…Planets

Banner "Dawn of the Dead... Planets – Are We Next?": zombie planets orbit a star as a worried Earth hides from a fiery sun

A Sequence of Clerihews. From Romeo Esparrago. I. The Undertaker. White dwarf J thirteen-twenty-eight Long ago met its fiery fate; Now, cold and tidy as a tomb, It keeps a graveyard in the gloom. II. The Inner Ghoul. The inner survivor, a few kilometres wide,Is the zombie that lived when its neighbors died;It shuffles a … Continue reading Poetry : Dawn of the Dead…Planets →

Story : The Unfinished Amplitude, Part One

Woodcut banner of a diverse cast gazing upward beneath a glowing sphere, symbols, a space station, a rocket and a vortex

From Romeo Esparrago. Part One : The Memory of Spacetime. A wave passes, and the detector does not come back to where it was. It comes back almost. That "almost" is permanent. We call it memory, and it is the most ordinary thing in the universe: everything that has ever happened has left the world … Continue reading Story : The Unfinished Amplitude, Part One →

PSA : Columbia Creatures, Crimes & Creativity Con

Painting of two teachers at a chalkboard before a class of monsters, a ghost, detectives, a robot, an astronaut and a pirate

For fans, readers, and writers (including wannabe writers) of genre fiction–mystery, suspense, thriller, horror, sci-fi, fantasy, and paranormal – the Creatures, Crimes, & Creativity Con is the place to meet in an informal atmosphere so that everyone can have fun connecting, and learning about writing, the authors and their books. Doubletree Hilton Hotel, Columbia, MD … Continue reading PSA : Columbia Creatures, Crimes & Creativity Con →

Story : Part 1 “A Kiss Before the Feast”

Curly-haired woman in red lunges at a man in glasses with a knife as two women grab them and a ghostly old man looks on

A Rondo Patungan story from Romeo Esparrago. PART 1 OF 2 : THE INVITATION. A Postcard at Lunch, Round Rock 2026 Rondo Patungan was sixty-two and three spoonfuls into his bowl of tinola chicken stew that had a squirt of patis and a squeeze of lemon at Lil Mama’s in Round Rock, Texas, when he … Continue reading Story : Part 1 “A Kiss Before the Feast” →

News : Sabrina’s Celestial Holography: Is Reality Just a Really Good Projection?

Stained-glass panel of a glowing particle sphere, a golden diamond shape and a long-haired woman with arms crossed

The Universe Is Flatter Than You Think. The Cosmos, Now in 2D. Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski is a Chicago-born theoretical physicist of Cuban and Polish descent. As a teenager she taught herself to build and fly a plane, which makes most of our teenage hobbies look like a rounding error. She went on to finish first … Continue reading News : Sabrina’s Celestial Holography: Is Reality Just a Really Good Projection? →

Story : Detection

Collage: scientists briefed by a radar dome, a soldier in a trench, white pods, a cube splashing into sea near warships

By Romeo Esparrago. The Soviet Union detonates their first atomic test on August 29, 1949. Radioactive particles collected over the skies of Alaska confirm this. President Truman announces this to the world on September 23, 1949. Massachusetts, 1953. John V. “Jack” Herrentown had drawn an aircraft on the blackboard. Beneath it he had drawn a … Continue reading Story : Detection →