Speculations from a writer’s perspective — It’s no secret, Artificial Intelligence is in the midst of revolutionizing various fields and industries from business automation to medical science, and yes, even the arts. The latter has resulted in quite a lot of chatter lately about graphic artists and painters being rendered obsolete or put out of work…

Tome of The Sixth Sun: Lunacy Trilogy Book III — Author’s Note: This is the latest instalment in an ongoing experimental novel. A full listing of chapters will be given below. …

Tongue-in-cheek Titillation — From the forthcoming, Future Sutras: A Decade of Anti-Poetry Lewd Ludus Been spending a bit too much time Back in the ‘naughty office’ Cranking away at ye ‘ole lever. There are just so many roles to cosplay Clad in skintight leather and vivid latex; Tout le monde adore la Vénus en fourrure! …

On The Joys of Missing Out — By now, it’s fairly safe to say that we’ve all heard of FOMO (Fear of Missing Out), but recently while camping a good friend turned me on to the concept of JOMO (Joy of Missing Out). This is of course when you’re feeling antisocial and would prefer to remain indoors…

Writing despite being blocked — Aphonia (noun): Loss of the voice resulting from disease, injury to the vocal cords, or psychological causes, such as hysteria and panic. Today the author feels a need to explain his lapses in online presence insofar as writing is concerned. While many writers enjoy a frequent output, some of us…

Contemplating Dystopian Days — According to ancient Hindu wisdom, the present age in which we live was predicted long ago by far-seeing sages and isn’t known as the golden, silver, or even bronze age. Verily, ours is the iron age of Kali, goddess of dissolution. According to Indic scriptures, the decadence and entropy that…

Tome of The Sixth Sun — Lunacy Trilogy Book III — Orbit of Marz Zaghah stood beside Prætor Omnoz on the broad observation deck of the Lunatyx’ lead ship — Tryztezzah. The ship was so dubbed due to the immeasurable sadness and shame that trailed along with the Lunatyx since they had sabotaged the inner core of Earth’s moon and ruptured it. Nevertheless, their…

Opposites ‘Retract’ — Contronyms are a special class of words that contain not only one meaning, but their own opposite meanings too. Variously known as auto-antonyms, contranyms, or even just a Janus word (after that Roman deity whom faces both the past and the future at once); these textual tidbits occur fairly frequently…

Wordsmithing from A to Z — A pangram is a whole sentence or verse that contains all 26 letters of the English alphabet. It may contain multiple instances of some of those letters, but every letter will appear at least once. Pangrams are useful for displaying the full range of any given font, and can also…