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An Attempt at the Inexhaustibility of Paris
Part II: 1944 / 2024 in Paris
Jan 8 • Samuél Lopez-Barrantes
An Attempt at the Inexhaustibility of Paris
July on the terrace of the Cafe de la Mairie
Dec 30, 2025 • Samuél Lopez-Barrantes
Pal's Tavern Bar
BumbleBee® Dating [flash fiction]
Dec 17, 2025 • Samuél Lopez-Barrantes
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Au Revoir, 11 Rue de la Roquette
Jun 5, 2025 • Samuél Lopez-Barrantes
Leap Day 2020
Feb 29, 2024 • Samuél Lopez-Barrantes
What am I doing here?
Nov 5, 2025 • Samuél Lopez-Barrantes
Without stories, we're lost
Sep 11, 2024 • Samuél Lopez-Barrantes
Reflections on Rothko at the Louis Vuitton Foundation
Nov 22, 2023 • Samuél Lopez-Barrantes
Sundays are for Piano
Sep 29, 2024 • Samuél Lopez-Barrantes
New York City Defies Narrative
Part IV: Life as Metaphor for Life
Dec 3, 2025 • Samuél Lopez-Barrantes
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A new generation in Paris goes back to the old ways
Nov 12, 2025 • Samuél Lopez-Barrantes
What am I doing here?
November in Paris: A definitive debut, a solo EP & a new literary magazine in Paris
Nov 5, 2025 • Samuél Lopez-Barrantes
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Chapter 1 - Slim and The Beast
A Soldier & His Stalker
Oct 30, 2025 • Samuél Lopez-Barrantes
Slim and The Beast: 10th Anniversary Edition
A Query Letter to Substack: An Adult American Fable
Oct 14, 2025 • Samuél Lopez-Barrantes
The Origins of Fascism (Part II)
Power in Pleasure: Benito Mussolini & Sigmund Freud's "pleasure principle"
Apr 3, 2024 • Samuél Lopez-Barrantes
The Origins of Fascism (Part I)
A War to End All Wars & An Italian Disaster
Mar 28, 2024 • Samuél Lopez-Barrantes
Kingdom Anywhere
on (indie) publishing: being/having/appearing
Apr 26, 2024 • Samuél Lopez-Barrantes
I, too, have a "Nazi Problem"
when words cease to hold meaning, history follows suit
Jan 10, 2024 • Samuél Lopez-Barrantes
if not, Paris
if not, Paris
a novelist sharing essays, tall tales & melodies from Paris
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