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The Maltman's Great-Grandson
In 1582 a man made malt in Edinburgh. Three generations later his family married the Lord Provost. The climb is in my blood — I just ran it backwards.
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Matt Stine
Eliara Isn’t Real
I built a singer out of a coaching breakdown and an AI, and she’s the truest thing I’ve ever released. The Threshold drops July 17.
Jul 10
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The Fourth Bookend
For four and a half centuries my family handed the faith down, minister to minister. I’m the one who walked out — and it turns out that was the most…
Jul 8
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Labeled as Potatoes
My sixth-great-grandfather wove a rebellion into linen, was sentenced to lose his head for it, and escaped the empire disguised as a sack of potatoes…
Jul 6
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The Conversation I’ve Been Having Without You
I’ve been making a deconstruction podcast with Jaye Anne Beringer for a month and never told this list. Today the fourth episode dropped.
Jul 5
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Matt Stine
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The Last Vessel
A woman the record tried to erase handed something down eight mothers to reach me. In me, it stops.
Jul 4
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Matt Stine
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The Voice That Kills
A chaos witch and a scholar taught me the banshee the same month. They’d take each other’s methods apart. I needed both — and the loose one handed me…
Jul 3
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Matt Stine
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The Heart-Bearer
My nineteenth great-grandfather carried a dead king’s heart across a continent. The goddess I serve carries hearts too — the same gesture, the opposite…
Jul 1
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June 2026
The Hand on the Lion
Purity is flight. Hype is being devoured. Control is a cage that rattles. The only posture that has ever worked — in code or in soul — is the hand on…
Jun 30
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Matt Stine
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The Kindred Who Locked the Door
A love letter to Blindboy — who is my people, and who used the wiring we share to lock the door.
Jun 29
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Matt Stine
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The Chant Was Never a Metaphor
Some of what I write here is battle-poetry — a real form, with a lineage and a grammar and a job. Time I stopped doing it by accident.
Jun 26
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Matt Stine
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Belief Is a Tool
Deeper Cut III — the operative current, and the last piece of The Construct’s ten. Everything before this taught you to read the patterns. This one…
Jun 26
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Matt Stine
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