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Manufacturing Cement
Does anyone even manufacture consent anymore?
Dec 9, 2025 • Charlie Markbreiter
Sleep Talk
A short story about a man who talks in his sleep
Nov 9, 2025
Probably in Michigan
In this guest essay, Walter Lucken IV explains why so many Catfish episodes were filmed in Michigan.
Nov 3, 2025 • Charlie Markbreiter and Walter Lucken IV
Jaw Filler
Surprise: I co-wrote a detective novel
Oct 30, 2025 • Charlie Markbreiter
The Wasian Century
On H1-B visas, The Summer I Turned Pretty, Labubu, and model minorities
Sep 30, 2025 • Charlie Markbreiter, Akhil Vaidya, Simone, and james factora
Inventing the Trans Shooter
And squaring an important circle in American imperial "decline" rhetoric
Sep 16, 2025 • Charlie Markbreiter
Vampire Days
On "Drag King Dreams," Leslie Feinberg's second novel
Sep 1, 2025 • Charlie Markbreiter
Plant Behind Bulletproof Glass
A short story that is 990 words
Aug 19, 2025 • Charlie Markbreiter
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