https://ridleypark.blog/2026/04/07/on-close-reading-the-godfather-notebook/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
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Ridley Park writes fiction that sits somewhere between speculative and literary—where language breaks down, meaning misfires, and nobody walks away with clean hands.
His work explores the edges of understanding: how we speak, what we assume, and what gets lost when two people – or two species – try to meet in the middle. Themes range from language failure and cultural projection to alien sex and epistemological unease, not necessarily in that order.
https://ridleypark.blog/about-ridley-park/
Advantagement is an experimental sub-3,500-word short story.
The experiment is language, but I don't stop there. I share the story on my blog, and here is a piece that discusses the inspiration.
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📝 Absurdist short story set in Victorian London. 👀
Story: https://ridleypark.blog/2026/02/15/advantagement/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
Summary Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5L7KmcSNx9K2fSxvY4a4xv?si=iJ1o7-DqR2Gn9KBhBAHk8w
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I got the The Stoic archetype!
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