Jacob Isaac Abraham
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A Thing about Sight
Maya, the jumping spider had a problem with seeing too much. The ultraviolet showed her things other spiders couldn't see, which sounds useful but mostly meant she knew when bad things were coming and couldn't do anything about them. Like how she watched the tree dying for weeks before the others noticed. Like how she saw the pattern of decay spreading through the bark in colors that didn't exist, beautiful in a way that meant death.
By Jacob Isaac Abraham3 months ago in Fiction
Uncontainable
As modernity emerged, rich families might be funding new neighborhoods outside the old city walls of Jerusalem with paper money from far away lands, but inside, in the twisted alleys where ways of knowing pressed against each other like old neighbors sharing walls, people traded their pasts.
By Jacob Isaac Abraham4 months ago in Chapters
