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Travis Megill
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writer and reader. project controls professional. twine amateur. he / they.

durham, nc.

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Storygraph Cover Collage October 2025: "Acceptance" by Jeff VanderMeer, "Words for Empty and Words for Full" by Bob Hicok, "The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane" by Kate DiCamillo, "On Blue's Waters" by Gene Wolfe", and "The City and Its Uncertain Walls" by Haruki Murakami
November 1, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Storygraph September 2025 Cover Collage: "Duress" by Poppy Fitzgerald, "Authority" by Jeff Vandermeer, and "Epiphany of the Long Sun" by Gene Wolfe
October 1, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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September 18, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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I had to say goodbye to my best friend, Audrey, yesterday, but I'm thankful I got so much time with her.
September 18, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Storygraph August Cover Collage: "Sandman Omnibus, Vol. 2" by Neil Gaiman, "Litany of the Long Sun" by Gene Wolfe, "Annihilation" by Jeff Vandermeer, and "Sleepless Nights" by Elizabeth Hardwick
September 2, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Storygraph July Reading List: "A Closed and Common Orbit" by Becky Chambers, "Swann's Way" by Marcel Proust (Grieve)
August 1, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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More books! From the Regulator Bookshop.
Three books on a wooden table, next to a white kratom tea: "Litany of the Long Sun" by Gene Wolfe, "Sculpting in Time" by Andrey Tarkovsky, and "The City and It's Uncertain Walls" by Haruki Murakami
July 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Another month of reading!
Cover collage from Storygraph showing: "Castleview" by Gene Wolfe, "Ship of Fools" by Jonas Goonface, "How Men Pray" by Philip Deaver, "Pandora, by Holly Hollander" by Gene Wolfe, and "Bones Washed in Wine" by Jeff Mann
July 1, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Fuck you too, Proust.
Photograph of an excerpt from Proust's "Swann's Way" (Grieve): "Soon after this, the course of the Vivonne became blocked with water-plants. To begin with, we came upon isolated ones, such as a certain waterlily which, unfortunately for itself, had managed to grow across the current and now was given not a moment's rest; like a ferryboat worked by a self-propelling mechanism, it no sooner reached one bank than it was sent back to the other, eternally doomed to make its non-stop double crossings. Pulled away from the bank, its stem unfolding, lengthening, snaking across the surface until it was stretched to its utmost, close to the opposite side, where the current caught it again, the green hawser recoiled on itself and hauled the poor plant back to what can only be called its starting-point, as it no sooner paused there for a second than it immediately set off again for a repetition of the same manoeuvre. Every time we walked that way, it was always in the same predicament, bringing to mind those neurotics (among whom my grandfather included Aunt Leonie) who over a period of years go through the weird unvarying motions of the habits they for ever believe they are just about to give up, but which they never break; trapped in the treadmill of their own manic anxieties, their unavailing struggles to get out of it only make sure it goes on working, and set off the mechanisms of their strange, inescapable and pernicious regimen."
June 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Finally tracked one down. Any good games yet?
eXistenZ controller
June 8, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Storygraph May reads: "The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry", "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz, "Soldier of Arete" by Gene Wolfe
June 1, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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April's over already, apparently.
My April 2025 Reads from Storygraph: "The Urth of the New Sun" by Gene Wolfe, "Face" by Sherman Alexie, and "There are Doors" by Gene Wolfe
May 5, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Meshuggah is always fun.
April 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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House/pet-sitter life at the beach.
Alice, the Russian Blue cat, sits on a hardwood deck, peering through the twisted strands of a hammock. Alice the cat sits on a human wearing a Little Foot "I Can't Kill Myself Today" shirt, laying on a hammock in the sun. Audrey the dog taking a walk on the beach under blue skies with scattered boar-like clouds.
April 11, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Morning and evening on Pawleys Island.
Sunrise over beach houses with a bit of ocean in between. Clouds spread across the sky like they're marching out of night. Sunset over the Pawleys Island marsh. Pink clouds stretch upward.
April 2, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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My March 2025 reads from Storygraph (book covers pictured): Soldier of the Mist by Gene Wolfe, I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman, WWJD and Other Poems by Savannah Sipple, 1984: Selected Letters by Samuel R. Delany, and Goat-footed Gods by Kathleen Driskell
March 31, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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And my haul from The Regulator Bookstore!
Books "Goat-footed Gods" by Kathleen Driskell and "Swann's Way" by Marcel Proust (Grieve translation) on a table in front of a cup of peppermint maté kratom tea from Da Kine's.
March 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Made a new buddy in line.
Lizard blending into a branch.
March 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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It was obvious the cherry blossom allée had bloomed by the overflow parking and 45 minute wait, but it's sure purdy.
Cherry blossom allée in full bloom against blue sky.
March 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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The sky wasn't as pretty today, so I went closer. Still no full blooms on the allée, and I'm likely going to be out of town for the best weeks. Hopefully next week they open up!
Cherry allée is starting to bloom over a paved path lined with shrubs in large pots. Closeup of magnolia blooms. Tree with white flowers in the background. Red camellia (?) in front. Daffodils.
March 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Little Foot at The Pour House, Raleigh, NC - littlefoot5.bandcamp.com/album/what-d...
March 10, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Weekend garden visit. Green buds on the cherry allée this time. Plenty of blooms elsewhere, though. Most crowded weekend by far.
Cherry allée at Duke Gardens, Durham, NC. No blossoms yet, just buds. "Snow Creams" in blossom. Sunlight through the magnolias. Smelled great. Blossoming (cherry?) tree hanging over a lake edge.
March 8, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Not my town, but I know my way around.
The Town from Pathologic 2. "The Maw, You're Hated Here".
March 2, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Almost forgot this cool little table I sat next to.
A round table with a slatted pattern with a flower on a cross in the center. Woods surround it.
March 1, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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The ducks live in fear beneath the watchful eyes of children.
A duck couple attempting a swim while a sinister young boy watches over via reflection on the water.
March 1, 2025 at 7:06 PM