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Tiddies and a Six Pack, Here Come the Flattery Scammers
PRACTICALITY: Sharpening your spidey-senses for the Substack sharks
Jun 20 • 
Ian Winter
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How to Use Your Stripe Account as a Substack Tip Jar
PRACTICALITY: Using your existing Stripe account to process tips straight into your bank account from a “Tip Jar” or “Buy Me A Coffee” button on your…
Jun 18 • 
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Thistles and Thorns
LOVE POEM #4: The pathway to passion. Barbed beginnings. Soft landings.
Apr 6 • 
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Bones in the Rocks
Nov 3, 2024 • Ian Winter
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Moor
Jan 13 • Ian Winter
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As the Lights Dim and Die
Mar 18 • Ian Winter
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Tendrils
Nov 10, 2024 • Ian Winter
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Thistles and Thorns
Apr 6 • Ian Winter
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Silt
Nov 22, 2024 • Ian Winter
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A Badger on the Road
POETRY: Nature’s struggle in the English countryside
Apr 1 • 
Ian Winter
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Slivers of Gold
POETRY: From winter’s depths, inching to spring
Mar 27 • 
Ian Winter
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As the Lights Dim and Die
POETRY: On my mother’s peaceful final hours.
Mar 18 • 
Ian Winter
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Somebody’s Stolen the Moon
POETRY: America darkly metamorphoses, and the Me is looming close
Mar 11 • 
Ian Winter
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The Wedding Poem
Tongue-tied and need to say something at a wedding? Here’s some sparkle to sprinkle on your speech.
Mar 6 • 
Ian Winter
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Flesh Within
LOVE POEM #3: Frustration. Barriers. Desire.
Mar 2 • 
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On The Struggle Of A Poetry Grump When Confronted With Free Verse That Isn’t
Scuffling with poetry that fails to resonate, blooms and dies. Parched flowers in the dark.
Feb 25 • 
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Seraphim
LOVE POEM #2: The heavenly choir. Peacefully blessed. Simple desire in an infinite cosmos.
Feb 14 • 
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Hourglass Sand
POETRY: Cause and consequences, the concertina of time, human failings.
Feb 11 • 
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Poetry

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Thistles and Thorns
LOVE POEM #4: The pathway to passion. Barbed beginnings. Soft landings.
Apr 6 • 
Ian Winter
18
6
A Badger on the Road
POETRY: Nature’s struggle in the English countryside
Apr 1 • 
Ian Winter
12
5
Slivers of Gold
POETRY: From winter’s depths, inching to spring
Mar 27 • 
Ian Winter
11
3
As the Lights Dim and Die
POETRY: On my mother’s peaceful final hours.
Mar 18 • 
Ian Winter
19
6
Somebody’s Stolen the Moon
POETRY: America darkly metamorphoses, and the Me is looming close
Mar 11 • 
Ian Winter
15
7

Fiction

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Dorothy, the Demon and I
FICTION: Night-walking to an appointment with ELIZA in the Underworld. Terror lurks. Choice becomes destiny. Freedom has a price.
Oct 28, 2024 • 
Ian Winter
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Actuality

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Flawed Claude
ACTUALITY: Adventures in AI, in which Claude admits to “talking out of my ass”
Jan 27 • 
Ian Winter
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Practicality

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Tiddies and a Six Pack, Here Come the Flattery Scammers
PRACTICALITY: Sharpening your spidey-senses for the Substack sharks
Jun 20 • 
Ian Winter
9
5
How to Use Your Stripe Account as a Substack Tip Jar
PRACTICALITY: Using your existing Stripe account to process tips straight into your bank account from a “Tip Jar” or “Buy Me A Coffee” button on your…
Jun 18 • 
Ian Winter
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