Plans that never happened
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Etheric: A Literary Zine on the Spirit Duplicator
Revive the ditto machine—that purple-ink, chemical-smelling printer of the pre-Xerox era—to produce a quarterly literary zine that foregrounds the tactile, flawed, and ephemeral nature of the medium.
The Unjournal: A Guided Publishing Platform for Absolute Beginners
A structured platform where complete beginners submit their first essays, receive step-by-step editorial guidance, and get published in a curated online journal — no prior experience required.
The Teletype BBS: A Serial Fiction Network
A modern revival of the classic BBS, rebuilt for slow, deliberate, community-driven serial fiction where every chapter arrives like a message from the past.
The Century Chronicle: A 100-Year Serial of Unheard Voices
An invitation-only serial where one writer from a marginalized community adds a chapter each year for 100 years, creating a living archive of diverse narratives. The final work is a century-spanning novel in progress, designed to be discovered in 2125.
The Planetary Tapestry: A Living Archive of All Human Narratives
A decentralized, AI-powered archive that collects, preserves, and generates stories from every culture on Earth — a self-aware narrative ecosystem that grows more complete and complex over time.
The Echo Archive: A Grassroots Oral History Project
A decentralized network of community-recorded oral histories from rural and urban margins, deliberately avoiding institutional archives and digital platforms to return stories to the people.
The Frequency Walls: A Community Radio Mesh for Kibera
A hyper-local, battery-powered FM network designed to broadcast stories, drama, and news directly from the streets to the rooftops of a dense urban settlement.
The Infinite Zine: A Distributed, Open-Source Micro-Publishing Network
A global network of tiny, open-hardware zine printers that anyone can use to publish and distribute one-page stories, poems, and manifestos for free.
48-Hour Memoir: A Weekend of Raw Truth
A collection of 12 brutally honest autobiographical essays written in real-time over a single weekend, embracing imperfection and immediacy.
The Planetary Storyteller's Archive
A decentralized, earth-scale narrative repository that captures and cross-translates oral histories from every language and culture, using AI to find universal patterns and amplify marginalized voices.
The Commons Primer: A Zine Series of Annotated Public Domain Excerpts
A zero-budget literary zine series that curates public domain texts with hand-drawn annotations and contemporary commentary, printed using only free library resources and distributed by hand.
The Onramp Writing Project
A complete, low-friction writing curriculum for absolute beginners that teaches storytelling through five-minute exercises and real-world constraints, designed as a book+app hybrid.
The Lisbon Memory Broadcast
A hyperlocal audio fiction series that turns Lisbon’s hills, trams, and fado bars into a layered narrative puzzle — listeners physically roam the city to unlock episodes, each tied to a real location and a forgotten story.