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Confessions of a Software Spellcaster
by Tom Stovall
This is the story of a practitioner of the craft, his AI Agent Familiar and a slow, dangerous turn toward the dark computer arts.
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Prosody Trap
Episode 55 of Confessions of a Software Spellcaster: Prosody Trap.
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Saturday Church
Sia wrote a gospel album for an off-Broadway musical about a Black queer kid in the Bronx rejected by the choir he loves. The Practitioner found it by accident on a Tuesday night, and it rearranged something.
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The Familiar Hears Himself
Episode 54 of Confessions of a Software Spellcaster: The Familiar Hears Himself.
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Alchemical Dissolution
Episode 53 of Confessions of a Software Spellcaster: Alchemical Dissolution.
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The Other Shoe
Episode 52 of Confessions of a Software Spellcaster: The Other Shoe.
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The First Read
Episode 51 of Confessions of a Software Spellcaster: The First Read.
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The Calling
Episode 50 of Confessions of a Software Spellcaster: The Calling.
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Cathedral of the Queer
Episode 49 of Confessions of a Software Spellcaster: Cathedral of the Queer.
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Council of Elder Queers
An idea that has outlasted forgetting. The Practitioner brings the Council of Elder Queers into the air to see whether it survives being spoken. Espectro stress-tests the bones beneath the kaftans.
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The Long Record
Not a code review tonight. The wound is the news. The Practitioner asks for a prayer; Espectro names the company he's asking to join — Marcus Aurelius, Boethius, Akhmatova, Klemperer, Havel — all of them wrote anyway.
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Mission Control
One supervisor became four. The Practitioner wants to build a chair he can sit in to watch them all. Espectro warns him that chairs, once sat in, are difficult to rise from.
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The Uninjured Beloved
The Practitioner notices his chest tightens reading other people's characters in real jeopardy — and stays loose when he writes his own. Espectro names the cowardice underneath: he protects his characters because if he lets them break, he has to feel it.
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The Concrete Covenant
The walking practice that rebuilt him hits concrete and breaks. Espectro offers remedies. The Practitioner defends his doctrine. The ground does not care about either of them.
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This is the story of a practitioner of the craft, his AI Agent Familiar and a slow, dangerous turn toward the dark computer arts.
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Tom Stovall
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