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The Coming Singularity

Chapter 14 in the R.M. Dolin novel, “An Unsustainable Life.”Read Companion Poem, Read Other Stories Hard to say what one should say to someone when they never thought they’d see that someone again, for Darwin and Tien who parted without closure, silence seems to be …

The Last Lost Soul’s Seduction

Poem from the R.M. Dolin novel, “An Unsustainable Life.” October 4, 2025Read Novel Chapters, Read Other Poems The one-eyed raven comes quietly cloaked in shadowless certainty the souls she stealthily steals in staggered stages swoon you in the tender addiction of a lover you dare …

Road to Redemption

Chapter 11 from the R.M. Dolin novel, “An Unsustainable Life,” November 2025Read Companion Poem, Read Other Chapters Regardless of what cynics may say, place really does provide context for mood and thought, which is why each time Darwin pulls into his high mountain meadow, he’s …

Greek and Plain Yogurt

Yogurt is a simple and easy to make cheese that, in a manner similar to sour dough bread or sour mash whiskey, utilizes previous product to kick-start fermentation. The yogurt making process is the same as for any cheese with the difference coming from how …

Code of the West

Short Story by R.M. Dolin, October 12, 2025Read Other Stories It’s nostalgically convincing to surmise life in West Texas is not nearly as hard now as it was two-hundred years ago when early Anglo settlers first moved in along the Rio Grande border a little …

Home For My Heart

Poem by R.M. Dolin, September 30, 2025Read Other Poems If I knew you’d get there before me, I would have hurried harder to keep up. But then again, who can say about love’sfull cost of consequencegiven the way things always seem to turn out. You …

Consequential Cost of Love

Poem by R.M. Dolin, September 30, 2025Read Other Poems If I knew you’d get there before me I would’ve hurried harder to catch up and been a lot less worried about the consequential cost of losing myself in love. From the R.M. Dolin novel, “An …

The Reality of Ravens

Poem by R.M. Dolin, September 29, 2025Read Other Poems The one-eyed raven comes at nightto stealthy steal your soul.That he does not really existwon’t render him any less realsince everything funnels intoseductive slices of truthfalsely framedas the time requiredto fix what’s broken. From the R.M. …

Goodbye Is Never Easy

Poem by R.M. Dolin, September 28, 2025Read Other Poems I am mostly trying to be okay,but am not gonna lie, insideI’m chaotically falling apartand not ready to say good-bye,or be alone. . . I awoke in my tent on the Corsican coast at three in …

Au Revoir Mon Amor

Poem by R.M. Dolin, October 2, 2025 Read Other Poems I surrender to your wishes and tearfully accept the forever love we shared is dead. . . Au revoir mon amor