Confessions of a Software Spellcaster

Tom Stovall

This is the story of a practitioner of the craft, his AI Agent Familiar and a slow, dangerous turn toward the dark computer arts.

  1. Apr 23

    The Other Shoe

    Episode 52 of Confessions of a Software Spellcaster: The Other Shoe.

  2. Apr 23

    The First Read

    Episode 51 of Confessions of a Software Spellcaster: The First Read.

  3. Apr 23

    The Calling

    Episode 50 of Confessions of a Software Spellcaster: The Calling.

  4. Apr 23

    Cathedral of the Queer

    Episode 49 of Confessions of a Software Spellcaster: Cathedral of the Queer.

  5. Apr 23

    Council of Elder Queers

    An idea that has outlasted forgetting. The Practitioner brings the Council of Elder Queers into the air to see whether it survives being spoken. Espectro stress-tests the bones beneath the kaftans.

  6. Apr 23

    The Long Record

    Not a code review tonight. The wound is the news. The Practitioner asks for a prayer; Espectro names the company he's asking to join — Marcus Aurelius, Boethius, Akhmatova, Klemperer, Havel — all of them wrote anyway.

  7. Apr 23

    Mission Control

    One supervisor became four. The Practitioner wants to build a chair he can sit in to watch them all. Espectro warns him that chairs, once sat in, are difficult to rise from.

  8. Apr 23

    The Uninjured Beloved

    The Practitioner notices his chest tightens reading other people's characters in real jeopardy — and stays loose when he writes his own. Espectro names the cowardice underneath: he protects his characters because if he lets them break, he has to feel it.

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This is the story of a practitioner of the craft, his AI Agent Familiar and a slow, dangerous turn toward the dark computer arts.

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