Esteban Noel

The Devil's Cowardice

In memory of Renee Nicole Good, 37.

Jan 8

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December 2025

September 2025

September 2025

What songs do the victims sing?

Sep 10, 2025

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August 2025

The Messenger-King

Pearl gray in dull violet, a full moon watched her oracle’s final vision:

Aug 25, 2025

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July 2025

I Can See Him Now

My brother never came home from the war.

Jul 24, 2025

June 2025

The World of Robert Altman

[In honor of the 50th anniversary of Nashville]

Jun 11, 2025

A Deep Melody of Night

Let us wander into a deep melody of night—summer, one-hundred years ago:

Jun 10, 2025

May 2025

Abounding in Song

The one-eyed brute, the absolute zero, slouches his 15-foot frame across a stone run of white rock, as he’s wandered all these years, alone, navigating…

May 27, 2025

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Across the Llano

1918— Domingo knew the language well.

May 8, 2025

Dolus

It starts on the way home—night, along well-trod sidewalk, little boxes like movie frames going underfoot, gray and empty, the ones that play after the…

May 2, 2025

April 2025

Alien Ruins

…awakening on two feet, in a daze, torched beneath a white sun, dragging my feet across alien sands, rattled, dizzy, but I can walk forward—and begin…

Apr 4, 2025

March 2025

THE ANIMUR: SLOAN 1

Every Friday night, hopeful, in a dark corner of her room, Ilda leaned forward and watched, transfixed by her host for the evening, a 700-year old…

Mar 21, 2025